“Alone Again Or“ from Calexico’s ’Live From Austin TX’ performance. Buy it today on Amazon
Musically Calexico is all over the map (they list as their influences Portuguese fado, 50’s jazz, gypsy music, 60’s surf and spaghetti western epics, among others). But when they made their debut on the Austin City Limits stage on September 13, 2006, their latest record, Garden Ruin, had taken them in new directions that even founding members Joey Burns and John Convertino might not have imagined when they first started recording over 10 years ago. After a decade of creating an eclectic sound that evokes images of sun-scorched rocks and windswept deserts, Calexico pulls a few surprises out of their musical bag to fill those dusty, empty landscapes with a big, big sound.