“Some of the stuff that’s in [the book] was written knowing that I may never play music again,” says Dave Alvin, chatting from his home in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. “Or I may…. I may be ...

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 ...

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, ...

Last year Vanguard Records released Avalon Blues, a tribute to the legacy of Mississippi John Hurt. Folksinger Peter Case, who conceived of the project and assembled the album, says he first heard ...

Dave Alvin is one of our best songwriters. He wrote almost all the original material for the Blasters’ brilliant first four albums between 1981 and 1985. He wrote “Long White Cadillac,” a top-40 ...

TROY — Dave Alvin helped pioneer the roots-rock movement back in the late-'70s and early '80s with the Blasters. But he wasn't a musician to be tied down stylistically. He explored punk with the ...

Dave Alvin last visited Spokane in the summer of 2016 on one of his Roots on the Rails tours. The roots-rock legend would gather a bunch of ace musicians, hop on a set of vintage train cars and barrel ...

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.