Alejandro Escovedo’s REAL ANIMAL, his second Back Porch/Manhattan Records album and 10th overall, forms an autobiography in song that traces his musical journey through a life of loving and playing rock’n’roll.  

Produced by Tony Visconti, whose legendary work with David Bowie and T. Rex are touchstones for Escovedo, making Visconti the quintessential producer for Escovedo’s most definitive album to date. In a career marked by almost unequaled critical acclaim for music that places him “in a genre all his own,” (Rolling Stone Magazine), REAL ANIMAL is a paramount work that tells his musical and personal story in a fashion that is revelatory, affecting and utterly effective.  The music and the songs — in basically chronological rather than playing order here — speak better and more eloquently for him than anything else.