SONG OF THE WEEK

Today's Song of the Week is from Alejandro Escovedo and his album A Real Animal. The album is a song story of his life and his career in music and Alejandro has been around for awhile, since he was a young man in the punk band the Nuns. This song is "Chelsea Hotel '78" and is about the time he lived at the hotel and other punkers like Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen lived there. For the previous decade No Depression magazine named Alejandro the Artist of the Decade.


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