title: Bourbonitis Blues
text: # Bourbonitis Blues
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Robert Christgau | |
  | Orlando Sentinel | |
  | Pitchfork Media | 6.1/10 |
  
  Bourbonitis Blues is an album by the musician Alejandro Escovedo, released in 1999 on Bloodshot Records.
  
  ## Production
  
  The tracks were recorded in Austin and in North Carolina, with a few live recordings from a Chicago show.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  No Depression deemed the album "a modest effort: a mix of covers and fresh originals, studio tracks and live cuts, bound together with no apparent logic other than it’s all good, warm, current work."
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks composed by Alejandro Escovedo; except where indicated
  
  * "I Was Drunk" (Live) – 4:53
  * "Irene Wilde" (Ian Hunter) – 2:52
  * "California Blues" (Live) (Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:21
  * "Guilty" – 4:54
  * "Amsterdam" (John Cale) – 3:43
  * "Everybody Loves Me" – 3:26
  * "Pale Blue Eyes" (Live) (Lou Reed) – 6:15
  * "Sacramento & Polk" (Live) – 4:44
  * "Sex Beat" (Jeffrey Lee Pierce) – 4:09
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Alejandro Escovedo - acoustic and electric guitar, vocals
  * Bill McCullough - pedal steel
  * Glenn Fukunaga - bass
  * Mycle Konopka - mixing
  * Hector Muñoz - drums
  * David Perales - violin, backing vocals
  * Maya Escovedo - photography
  * Joe Eddy Hines - acoustic and electric guitar
  * Todd V. Wolfson - photography
  * Chris Phillips - drums, percussion
  * Dana Lee Smith - artwork
  * Melissa Swingle - harmonica, backing vocals
  * Timothy Powell - engineer
  * Brian Standefer - cello
  * Tom V. Ray - bass
  * Chris Stamey - bass, guitar, harmonium, producer, engineer
  * Tim Harper - engineer
  * Kelly Hogan - vocals
  * Jon Langford - acoustic guitar, vocals
  