When Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Ian Hunter, Son Volt, and Calexico make a record to save your life, you’ve achieved icon status in the music world. Yet despite his performing in bands since the ’70s and solo since the early ’90s, Texas-native Alejandro Escovedo is hardly a household name for those who appreciate roots music. And he rarely sells out East Coast shows. But things are changing. Over the course of the past several months,…

Last April, President Bush’s iPod lineup was revealed to the world to contain some rather incongruous choices – from “My Sharona” by the Knack to a few Joni Mitchell songs. The world shrugged. But apparently what the leader of the free world is listening to is still a burning question, and so the Post’s Reliable Source today reports that Bush’s iPod Shuffle is now filled with some different tunes – everything from “American Pie”…