Artist: Dave Alvin
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #75 May-June 2008
Dave Alvin/Tim O’Brien/Chris Smither – Cedar Cultural Center (Minneapolis, MN)
While nearly 18 million viewers watched Amy Winehouse and Kanye West wave their hardware on the Grammys, more than 400 braved a sub-zero Minnesota night to see three wizened pickers playfully billed as The Monsters of Folk. “They said it couldn’t be done: The reuniting of the Spice Girls,” deadpanned Monsters of Folk ringleader and [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Dave Alvin – West Of The West, Vol. 1
California is the land of plenty in more ways than just fresh fruits, cracked nuts, jagged mountains and warm beaches. Music, too, is a huge part of the state’s history, and native son Dave Alvin feels it. As a veteran singer-songwriter, he’s part of that musical history himself, but he’s also quick to recognize the [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Dave Alvin – Do look back
“Ashgrove”, the title song from Dave Alvin’s new solo album, is a salute to the Hollywood nightclub where Alvin, as a teenager, first saw Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Reverend Gary Davis. But this is not your typical tribute tune, full of reverence and sentiment. This, like all of Alvin’s great songs, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men – Out In California
For Dave Alvin fans, it may be enough to simply report that this new live disc includes “4th Of July” in the form of a touching ballad, and “American Music” rendered as a screaming, convincing answer to the oft-stated but tired proposition that “it was much better back with the Blasters.” In his second live [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Dave Alvin – Romeo’s Escape
One image lingers after seeing the Blasters perform at the Chestnut Cabaret in Philadelphia in October 1984. While Phil Alvin sang “Long White Cadillac”, his brother, Dave, the band’s principal songwriter, could be seen silently mouthing the lyrics while playing lead guitar. In retrospect, it was a sign that a singer was waiting to emerge [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Dave Alvin – Public Domain
Dave Alvin should be long past the point where he has to see his name in the same sentence as the word “Blasters.” But it just happened again, and it can’t be helped. Alvin’s solo career is a long, strong distillation of the retrospective enthusiasms of his Blasters days with the modernist yearning he so [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #21 May-June 1999
Dave Alvin / Robbie Fulks – Double Door Inn (Charlotte, NC)
The Americana Showcase Night is a regular Tuesday night affair at the Double Door Inn. In the beginning, the Rank Outsiders got together with fellow Charlotte musicians Lenny Federal, David Childers, and Michael Reno Harrell; later, the Willy Evans Trio, a blues outfit, joined up as well. In the series’ first year, the locals would [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Dave Alvin – Welcome to the working week
There’s somethin’ in a Sunday Makes a body feel alone – “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”, Kris Kristofferson The calendar may portray it as the beginning of the week, but in reality, we all know Sunday is the end of the weekend. The psychological impact traces back to those early memories of childhood: Bolting out of [...]
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