From 2004 Por Vida is a 20 track 2x CD on Or Music and is a tribute to the songs of Alejandro Escovedo.
It is essentially a fundraiser following his collapse from Hepatitis C complications in 2003 with health insurance not affordable to the majority of ordinary people in the US.
Alejandro is a universally respected Americana singer song writer as the stellar tracklist highlights with the great and the good lining up pay their respects.
Here is the blurb from the Americana bible No Depression.
I've gone for three of my particular favourites - Lucinda Williams, The Jayhawks and Son Volt
I'm pleased to say that the great man is still going strong as his discography demonstrates.
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