The Punk-Poet Laureate of Austin Roots-Rock While cosmic cowboys, blues prodigies, and psychedelic visionaries carved out key pillars of Central Texas music, Alejandro Escovedo stands as the ultimate embodiment of Austin’s genre-defying, resilient artistic soul. Moving effortlessly from first-wave San Francisco punk to cowpunk, baroque chamber rock, and heart-wrenching singer-songwriter ballads, Escovedo helped forge the…