BUICK MACKANE
''THE PAWN SHOP YEARS''
FEBRUARY 25 1997
42:52
1 The End
Stephen Bruton / Alejandro Escovedo / Tim Kerr 3:22
2 Falling Down Again
Alejandro Escovedo 5:25
3 Black Shiny Beast
Alejandro Escovedo 3:49
4 Edith
Alejandro Escovedo 4:02
5 Queen Anne
Alejandro Escovedo 2:41
6 Say Goodnight
Alejandro Escovedo / Thierry LeCoz 4:20
7 Big Shoe Head
Glenn Benevides / Alejandro Escovedo / David Fairchild 4:52
8 John Conquest, You've Got Enough Dandruff on Your Collar to Bread a V
Alejandro Escovedo 5:23
9 Wandering Eye
Alejandro Escovedo / David Fairchild 2:55
10 Loose
Dave Alexander / Ron Asheton / Iggy Pop 6:03
Glenn Benavides /Drums
Buick MacKane
Walter Daniels /Harmonica
Alejandro Escovedo /Composer, Guitar, Vocals
David Fairchild /Bass, Composer, Vocals
Joe Eddy Hines /Guitar
REVIEW
by Roch Parisien
Under the guise of Buick MacKane (the name drawn from a T. Rex song), Alejandro Escovedo and co-conspirators Joe Eddy Hines, Glenn Benavides, and David Fairchild kick out the jams on a set of primal rock that finds Austin roots music infected with spores of Motor City Madness via the New York Dolls and Mott the Hoople. In this setting, Escovedo's limited but wizened vocal range only adds to the music's primitive, hypnotic, pummeling effect. It imparts a knowing vibe that the group is pounding out big, noisy rock because it passionately chooses to, not because it can do nothing else. A part-time project recorded over three years by musicians who passionately care about the fact that they're having a great time in the process, The Pawn Shop Years comes, conquers, and destroys with far more devastating effect than many a self-important hard rock band purporting to do this for a living.
BIOGRAPHY
by John Bush
Named after a T. Rex track by founders Alejandro Escovedo, bassist David Fairchild and drummer Glenn Benavides, Buick MacKane blended rootsy rock with edgier forms of the 1970s like garage rock and glam. The loose quartet was formed in 1989 when Benavides (formerly of Doctors Mob) and Fairchild invited Escovedo to jam with them soon after the breakup of Escovedo's band the True Believers. After losing original guitarist Thierry LeCoz, the trio found Austin nightclub regular Joe Eddy Hines and began recording songs in 1993 for what was later released as The Pawn Shop Years. Finally, in 1997, the record appeared on Rykodisc.
''THE PAWN SHOP YEARS''
FEBRUARY 25 1997
42:52
1 The End
Stephen Bruton / Alejandro Escovedo / Tim Kerr 3:22
2 Falling Down Again
Alejandro Escovedo 5:25
3 Black Shiny Beast
Alejandro Escovedo 3:49
4 Edith
Alejandro Escovedo 4:02
5 Queen Anne
Alejandro Escovedo 2:41
6 Say Goodnight
Alejandro Escovedo / Thierry LeCoz 4:20
7 Big Shoe Head
Glenn Benevides / Alejandro Escovedo / David Fairchild 4:52
8 John Conquest, You've Got Enough Dandruff on Your Collar to Bread a V
Alejandro Escovedo 5:23
9 Wandering Eye
Alejandro Escovedo / David Fairchild 2:55
10 Loose
Dave Alexander / Ron Asheton / Iggy Pop 6:03
Glenn Benavides /Drums
Buick MacKane
Walter Daniels /Harmonica
Alejandro Escovedo /Composer, Guitar, Vocals
David Fairchild /Bass, Composer, Vocals
Joe Eddy Hines /Guitar
REVIEW
by Roch Parisien
Under the guise of Buick MacKane (the name drawn from a T. Rex song), Alejandro Escovedo and co-conspirators Joe Eddy Hines, Glenn Benavides, and David Fairchild kick out the jams on a set of primal rock that finds Austin roots music infected with spores of Motor City Madness via the New York Dolls and Mott the Hoople. In this setting, Escovedo's limited but wizened vocal range only adds to the music's primitive, hypnotic, pummeling effect. It imparts a knowing vibe that the group is pounding out big, noisy rock because it passionately chooses to, not because it can do nothing else. A part-time project recorded over three years by musicians who passionately care about the fact that they're having a great time in the process, The Pawn Shop Years comes, conquers, and destroys with far more devastating effect than many a self-important hard rock band purporting to do this for a living.
BIOGRAPHY
by John Bush
Named after a T. Rex track by founders Alejandro Escovedo, bassist David Fairchild and drummer Glenn Benavides, Buick MacKane blended rootsy rock with edgier forms of the 1970s like garage rock and glam. The loose quartet was formed in 1989 when Benavides (formerly of Doctors Mob) and Fairchild invited Escovedo to jam with them soon after the breakup of Escovedo's band the True Believers. After losing original guitarist Thierry LeCoz, the trio found Austin nightclub regular Joe Eddy Hines and began recording songs in 1993 for what was later released as The Pawn Shop Years. Finally, in 1997, the record appeared on Rykodisc.