Alejandro Escovedo

And so I left Austin.

I was doing something with Alejandro Escovedo and I flew and I didn't get to sleep.

So I got to Dublin and I'm not really a drinker like this, but I figured, you know what, we have a rehearsal.

I'll have a Guinness.

They were so excited to meet-

And Alejandro Escovedo, he was there, too.

Wow

... my buddy, who's still around and...

But, uh, it, like I said, I hadn't really crossed the line.

I'm in San Francisco doing this play.

I go to a movie one night, and I meet these punk rockers who are standing in line for the movie, and including the musician Alejandro Escovedo, who today remains, you know, he's alive and well and is one of my best friends.

Um, anyway, they said, "We're moving to New York, uh, th- to the Chelsea Hotel." I knew about the Chelsea, but I, you know, I'd never spent time there.

So we just heard three songs with the simple title, Bad News.

The first from Alejandro Escovedo and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts.

Jerry Jeff Walker followed with a very similar song, something he learned from Johnny Cash.

And Moon Martin closed with these lines.