A lyricist with a remarkable ability to find subtle beauties and difficult truths in the stuff of everyday lives, the mercurial Alejandro Escovedo brings his band to The Shedd for an evening of alt-country alchemy and good old American rock and roll with a bit of punk attitude thrown in for good measure. Escovedo’s creativity prompted No Depression magazine to name him its Artist of the Decade even before the close of the 1990s, an unprecedented honor for one of America’s most versatile musicians.