Nakia Singing With Alejandro Escovedo At Austin’s Continental Club

Hey everybody! Nakia here…

Back in September, I posted a story about Alejandro Escovedo inviting me to sing with him at the recent Buick MacKane reunion show at Hole In The Wall. In that post I talked about bumping into Al at this year’s HAAM Benefit Day performance at Whole Foods. That day he mentioned he was preparing for a long series of shows at Austin’s legendary, Continental Club. A residency where he would be working out material for the new record he is working on. He invited me to stop by and sing some tunes with him and so I have been.

Alejandro & Nakia singing Beast Of Burden At the South Congress Sessions at Austin's Continental Club.

These shows have been dubbed the South Congress Sessions and each Tuesday night at 10PM, Alejandro and guitarist, David Pulkingham break out 2-3 brand new tunes on acoustic guitar, then call the rest of the band up to work ‘em out loud and plugged in. So far there have been three of these and it sounds like Al & company will be at the Continental every Tuesday possibly through January, but I wouldn’t wait to get out there. The line to get in has been over a block long the last two weeks!!

I can’t recommend these shows enough. It’s truly Alejandro at his finest and the band is really on fire with Hector Muñoz on drums, David Pulkingham on guitar, and Bobby Daniels on bass. There’s talk of even adding myself and the Fresh Up Girls to some of the new tunes.

Adding to the cool factor of these sessions is that Alejandro has been choosing the acts to follow him. So far he’s had the Frank Mustard Project, Amy Cook (Look for the Alejandro produced new album soon!), and this past week the explosive Hacienda from San Antonio. On board are acts like Grady, Tom Gilliam, Stone Twisted (featuring Alex Ruiz of Del Castillo), and more!

Here’s a clip from this past week’s show with me singing with Alejandro on the Stones’ classic, Beast Of Burden courtesy of Dave TeeVee and his amazing crew.