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Dave Alvin

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Grammy award winning singer/songwriter/bar-room guitar player Dave Alvin has been a constant force in traditional American roots music, both electric and acoustic, for over 25 years. From his earliest days with roots pioneers The Blasters through his stinits with punk rock/folkies X and The Knitters through his various solo releases, Dave has mixed blues, folk, rockabilly, rhythm and blues, country, surf, cajun and even doo wop into his own unique brand of American Music. His songs have been recorded by Los Lobos, Buckwheat Zydeco, Robert Earl Kean, Dwight Yoakam, Kelly Willis, James McMurtry, Joe Ely and Little Milton to name a few, and have been heard in tv shows like THE SOPRANOS and movies like CRYBABY and THELMA AND LOUISE.

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Member Since: 4/3/2006
Band Website: davealvin.net
Band Members: Dave Alvin
Record Label: Yep Roc
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Man Walks Among Us

MAN WALKS AMONG US - written by Marty Robbins The first record I ever owned was EL PASO by Marty Robbins. I was four orfive years old and forced my mother to buy it for me after hearing the songon the...
Posted by Dave Alvin on Wed, 21 May 2008 12:25:00 PST

Two Lucky Bums - Memorial Edition

TWO LUCKY BUMS (Memorial Edition) Written by Dave Alvin  Performed by Dave Alvin & Chris Gaffney My other big brother, Chris Gaffney passed away Thursday morning, April 17, 2008. I had another so...
Posted by Dave Alvin on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:53:00 PST

Chris Gaffney 1950-2008

Chris Gaffney 1950 - 2008 My other big brother, Chris Gaffney passed away Thursday morning, April 17,2008. I really don't know what to say right now but I feel that I have to saysomething.  First...
Posted by Dave Alvin on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:14:00 PST

Chris Gaffney

Dear friends, fans and everyone else:I want to sincerely thank everyone who has gone (and will go) tohelpgaff.com and donated to the Chris Gaffney cause. I’m really at a lossfor words regarding ...
Posted by Dave Alvin on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:24:00 PST

Live in Pasadena!

Nationally-renowned author Gerald Haslam and Grammy Winner Dave Alvin will appear for a free program on Saturday, April 5th at 7 p.m. in the South Pasadena Library Community Room at 1115 El Centro Str...
Posted by Dave Alvin on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:23:00 PST

Those Lonely, Lonely Nights

THOSE LONELY, LONELY NIGHTSEarl King/Johnny VincentDemon Music Ltd. BMI This month’s song is very, very special for me.  Last December, ChrisGaffney joined me on stage with The Gene Taylor ...
Posted by Dave Alvin on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:26:00 PST

Drunk

Who says a song needs more than one chord? Rhythm and Blues pioneer JimmyLiggins didn't think so and his 1953 jump blues hit DRUNK, a tribute to thejoys and travails of inebriation, certainly proves i...
Posted by Dave Alvin on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:27:00 PST

Perdido Street Blues

There are many ways of playing the blues and this is one of them. Back inthe early days of jazz they would've called this approach to blues, "vipermusic." That term always sounded pretty good to me.PE...
Posted by Dave Alvin on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:38:00 PST

DAVE ALVIN AND THE GUILTY MEN ON NEW AUSTIN CITY LIMITS!!!

..> ..> DAVE ALVIN AND THE GUILTY MEN ON NEW AUSTIN CITY LIMITS!!!CHECKYOUR LOCAL PBS LISTINGS FOR SHOWTIME SCHEDULES!!!http://www.pbs.org/tvschedules/?edit_st=yWe apologize for not getting the news ...
Posted by Dave Alvin on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:36:00 PST

Two Lucky Bums

TWO LUCKY BUMS  Written by Dave Alvin  Performed by Dave Alvin & Chris GaffneyOut in the lonely, high desert plains of New Mexico is a tiny, semiabandoned town called Cuervo. Fifteen or twenty m...
Posted by Dave Alvin on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:10:00 PST