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Gravity
Studio album by Alejandro Escovedo
Released	1992
Studio	The Hit Shack, Austin, Texas
Genre	Alt-country, heartland rock
Length	50:39
Label	Watermelon
Producer	Turner Stephen Bruton
Alejandro Escovedo chronology
Gravity (1992) Thirteen Years (1994)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Rolling Stone

Gravity is the début album of Alejandro Escovedo, released in 1992. Heinz Geissler and John Kunz were the executive producers.

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "In the clarified artistic vision of a mature musician with a broken heart, a spiritual sense of his place in the world and a rich, resonant voice, Escovedo devised an electric folk idiom ... powerfully suited to the poetic hair shirt he donned."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Alejandro Escovedo

1. "Paradise" – 4:16
2. "Broken Bottle" – 3:53
3. "One More Time" – 3:46
4. "By Eleven" – 4:03
5. "Bury Me" – 5:24
6. "Five Hearts Breaking" – 4:10
7. "Oxford" – 4:25
8. "Last to Know" – 5:00
9. "She Doesn't Live Here Anymore" – 4:24
10. "Pyramid of Tears" – 4:00
11. "Gravity/Falling Down Again" – 7:18

Personnel

• Alejandro Escovedo - vocal, acoustic guitar
• Turner Stephen Bruton - slide guitar, electric slide guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, vocal harmony
• Chris Knight - keyboards
• Barry "Frosty" Smith - drums, percussion
• Dennis Kenmore - drums
• Rick Poss - electric twelve-string guitar
• Terry Wilson - bass
• John Hagen - cello
• Marty Muse - pedal steel guitar
• Thierry Le Coz - electric guitar
• Bill Ginn - piano
• Lou Ann Barton - vocal harmony
• Bill Averbach - trumpet on "Bury Me"
• J. D. Foster - vocal harmony
• Cid Sanchez - lead guitar on "Oxford"
• Spencer Starnes - double bass on "She Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
• Bruce & Charlie Robison - vocal harmonies
• Dennis Kenmore, Jay Hudson, T.S. Bruton, Chris Knight, "Big Wave" Dave McNair, J.D. Foster, Alejandro Escovedo - The Cappuccino Choir
• Maya Escovedo, Megan Ewing - The Screaming Me Me's

Technical

• Heinz Geissler, John T. Kunz - executive producer
• Kathy Marcus - art direction, design
• Dana Lee Smith - illustration

References

1. Deming, Mark. Gravity at AllMusic
2. "Rolling Stone review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008.
3. Pareles, Jon (April 30, 2006). "Alejandro Escovedo Has a Lot to Sing About: He's Still Alive" – via NYTimes.com.
4. "Alejandro Escovedo – Gravity / Thirteen Years – No Depression". www.nodepression.com.
5. "Alejandro Escovedo". Trouser Press. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
6. Alejandro Escovedo – Gravity Label: Lone Star Records, Discogs

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