Alejandro Escovedo recently signed a deal with Bruce Springsteen’s management company, but that doesn’t make a cameo by Escovedo at a sold-out show in Houston by the Boss on Monday any less exhilarating.

The pair teamed up for Always a Friend, a song from Escovedo’s forthcoming Real Animal record, due out June 24 on Back Porch Records.

Escovedo is also on the just-released Austin City Limits Festival lineup.