Austin’s greatest musical ambassador not named Willie Nelson, Alejandro Escovedo returns to New Braunfels’ historic Texas dance hall on the anniversary of the day Elvis Presley died. Escovedo’s been soaking up the acclaim for his adventurous new album, Echo Dancing, which features some bold reimaginings of chunks of his repertoire from over the years, deepening and strengthening the songs in all cases. It’s the songs that are always of the utmost importance to him. Joining him is next-generation Austin country/roots rock singer-songwriter David Ramirez. – Tim Stegall