Photo by Nancy Rankin Escovedo, via Facebook

Photo by Nancy Rankin Escovedo, via Facebook

Alejandro Escovedo lived in Austin for about 35 years, but before that, he spentĀ some time in Oak Cliff.

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In a 2012 interview with him, Escovedo told the Advocate that he visitedĀ our neighborhood when he was a kid. His uncle, Toby RenterĆ­a had a tailor shop here.

So all my cousins grew up there with the Vaughans ā€¦ I was doing this show called ā€œMountain Stage.ā€ And we were talking about this to the emcee [Oak Cliff native Larry Groce], and I started telling him about my family and that my uncle had a tailor shop in Oak Cliff. And he said, ā€œOh, your cousin is [golf pro Phil RenterĆ­a],ā€ and he said, ā€œOh, we used to hang out together.ā€

Escovedo and his wife, Nancy Rankin Escovedo, recently relocated from Austin to Oak Cliff. He explains why in this first-person story from the Austin Chronicle.

His new album, “Burn Something Beautiful,” was released this week. The whole album is streaming on RollingStone.com.