Dave Alvin's songs have an exquisite sense of place. Names such as Abilene, the Rio Grande, and the late Los Angeles club the Ashgrove stud his lyrics. Conversely, the song's narrators are transients, ...

Dave Alvin knows that music isn’t created in a vacuum. And although he excels at all four styles, he’d be the first to tell you that he didn’t invent blues, country, folk or rock. Calling him the ...

Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a Texan who spent a few formative years in California. Dave Alvin is a Californian who has spent alot of time in Texas. So of course, when the Blaster and the Flatlander began ...

It was hard to imagine a more unlikely scenario than the one that played out at the end of Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s duo show Thursday at the Troubadour, a hometown stop — for Alvin anyway ...

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Dave Alvin didn’t set out to write an Independence Day song when he started recounting a day in his life on paper 40 some years ago. He wasn’t even writing a song. But, years after he took out the pen ...

Singer-songwriter Dave Alvin has been a busy man, and so have the volunteers at the Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation. Alvin, the featured performer on Sunday at The Long's Park Summer Music Series, ...

Dave Alvin and his big brother, Phil, made roots-rock cool in the ‘80s with The Blasters. Between Phil’s phenomenally soulful singing and Dave’s incisive songwriting and searing licks, they stirred up ...

Dave Alvin - Grammy award winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Dave Alvin started his career along side his brother, Phil, in the seminal roots rock band The Blasters that they formed together in 1979.