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Chanteur
Country US né David Albert Alvin, le 11 Novembre 1955 à Downey
(Californie), est un
auteur-compositeur-interprète, guitariste, producteur de musique et poète
américain. Il est un ancien membre fondateur du groupe de rock roots The
Blasters. Dave Alvin a enregistré et joué en tant qu'artiste solo depuis la
fin des années 1980 et a été impliqué dans divers projets parallèles et
collaborations. Il a fait de brefs passages dans les groupes X et The Knitters.
A singer, songwriter, and guitarist with a keen eye for the
details of American life and a powerful and passionate performing style, Dave
Alvin helped to kick-start the American roots rock scene in the early '80s with
the band The Blasters, and has since
gone on to a career as a solo performer, songwriter, producer, and sideman
that's been as well respected as it is eclectic. Born and raised in Downey,
California, Dave Alvin and his brother Phil
Alvin were avid music fans since childhood, immersing themselves in vintage
blues, country, and rockabilly sounds. Their passion led to them founding The
Blasters, who played roots-inspired rock & roll with the energy and fire of
punk rock, in 1979. With Dave as guitarist and principal songwriter, The
Blasters became stars in Los Angeles and earned a devoted fan following
internationally after the release of their self-titled 1981 album for
Slash. Dave left The Blasters after
their 1985 album, Hard Line, and launched his solo career with 1987's Every
Night About This Time. Health problems sidelined Alvin for a spell, but after Dwight
Yoakam scored a hit with Alvin's song "Long White Cadillac," he returned to
action with 1991's Blue Blvd. He made a compelling acoustic effort with
1994's King of California, while he doubled down on his interest in traditional
folk and rural blues with a pair of critically acclaimed releases, 1998's Blackjack
David and 2000's Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land. Through the
2000s, Alvin moved back and forth between electric and acoustic projects, and in
2014 he reunited with his brother Phil for Common Ground: Dave & Phil Alvin Play
and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy. He documented another memorable
collaboration with 2018's Downey to Lubbock, recorded with Jimmie
Dale Gilmore.
Born in Downey, California in 1955, Alvin was raised by a family of music fans,
and as teenagers Dave and his older brother Phil immersed
themselves in blues, rockabilly, and vintage country sounds, collecting rare
records and attending nightclub performances by the likes of T-Bone Walker, Big
Joe Turner, and Lee Allen. Like many fans, the Alvin brothers wanted to play
music influenced by the sounds they loved, and in 1979 they formed The
Blasters with fellow Downey residents Bill Bateman and John Bazz. Combining
the revved-up energy of punk rock with an enthusiastic embrace of classic
American sounds, The Blasters became a
sensation in Los Angeles and won an enthusiastic cult following across the
United States and Europe. However, The
Blasters were unable to translate their critical respect and enthusiastic
fan base into mainstream success, and in 1986 Dave left the band. Phil
Alvin continued to front various lineups of The
Blasters, and in 2002 Dave joined forces with Phil, Bill
Bateman, and John Bazz for a short series of Blasters reunion
shows.
While playing with The Blasters, Alvin had
already displayed a broad range of enthusiasms with two side projects, Chris
D.'s literate goth-punk collective the Flesh Eaters and the Knitters, an
acoustic ensemble in which Alvin performed vintage country and folk numbers with John
Doe and Exene Cervenka of X. Shortly after leaving The
Blasters, Alvin joined X as lead guitarist after the departure of Billy
Zoom; however, Alvin amicably left the group to work on a solo project shortly
after the recording sessions for their album See How We Are. Alvin's first solo
album, entitled Romeo's Escape in the United States and Every Night About This
Time in England, added a purer country influence along with a larger side
portion of the blues; while the album was critically well received, it didn't
fare well in the marketplace, and Alvin was dropped by his American record
label, Columbia. Alvin suffered health problems that sidelined him for a while,
except for a wild tour with friends Mojo
Nixon and Country
Dick Montana as the
Pleasure Barons, which was described as "a Las Vegas revue from acts who
aren't going to be asked to play Vegas." (A live album was released of a second Pleasure
Barons tour in 1993.)
In 1989, Dwight
Yoakam scored a hit on the country charts with Alvin's
song "Long White Cadillac," and Alvin used
the royalties to start work on his second solo set, Blue
Blvd. Released by the California-based roots-music label Hightone Records, Blue
Blvd received enthusiastic reviews and sold well enough to reestablish Alvin as
a significant artist in the roots rock scene. After releasing Museum
of Heart in 1993, Alvin began
to turn his attention to acoustic music with 1994's King
of California, and over the next several years Alvin moved
back and forth between hard-edged roots rock and more introspective acoustic
material that still honored his influences (and allowed him to display a greater
range as a vocalist). In 2000, Alvin recorded
a collection of traditional folk and blues classics, Public
Domain: Songs from the Wild Land, which earned him a Grammy Award for Best
Contemporary Folk Album. In 2004, Alvin signed
with the upstart roots rock label Yep Roc Records, which released his album Ashgrove,
a low-key but hard-edged set of blues and rock. It was followed in 2006 by West
of the West and a year later by Live
from Austin TX (a performance on Austin City Limits from 1999).
He changed his approach a bit with Dave
Alvin and the Guilty Women, which was issued by Yep Roc in 2009, by
recording with five women, and it seemed to revitalize him. Eleven
Eleven, Alvin's first solo studio album of original material in some seven years, appeared in
2011, again on Yep Roc. Eleven
Eleven included a duet with Phil
Alvin on the tune "What's Up with Your Brother?," and in 2014 Dave and Phil recorded
a full album together for the first time since Dave left The
Blasters; Common
Ground: Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy was
a celebration of one of their first and strongest musical influences that found
them both in strong form. The Alvin brothers
supported Common
Ground with a concert tour, and in 2015 Dave and Phil returned
with a lively set of electric blues, Lost
Time. In 2017, Dave joined
forces with another roots music favorite, Jimmie
Dale Gilmore, for a concert tour. The two were pleased with the results and
went into the studio to cut a duo album, 2018's Downey
to Lubbock.
When not busy recording his own music, Alvin has
also worked as a producer for several other roots-oriented acts, including Tom
Russell, the
Derailers, and Big
Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, and he has collaborated with rockabilly legend Sonny
Burgess. As a sideman, Alvin has
recorded sessions with the likes of Ramblin'
Jack Elliott, Little
Milton, Katy
Moffatt, and Syd
Straw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Alvin
Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter, Music Producer
Style musical : Contemporary Country, Rockabilly, Country-Rock, Americana, Folk, Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im-407BAbnA
Years in activity :
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DISCOGRAPHY
Singles & EP
| 1987 | SP 12" 33 t. EPIC EAS-2783 (US) (promo) |
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New Tattoo / Border Radio |
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| 1987 | SP EPIC 34-07394 (US) | . |
Every Night About This Time / Brother On The Line |
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| 1987 | SP DEMON D 1049 (UK) |
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Fourth Of July / You Got Me |
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| 1998 | CD Hightone prcd 201 (US) (promo) | . |
Abilene / Railroad Bill (unreleased) / How You Want It Done (unreleased) |
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| 2006 | CD Yep Roc ? (US) | . |
West Of The West - Exclusive Bonus Tracks - Boss Intro / Boss / Mister Moto Intro / Mister Moto |
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| 04/2014 | 2 SP 10" Yep Roc YEP-2383 (US) |
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Songs From Common Ground - Dave
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| 04/2017 | EP 12" Yep Roc YEP-2494 (US) (limited edition, Translucent Red) |
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Hard Travelin' - Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin - Hard Travelin' / Mean Old Frisco / California Desert Blues / Kansas City Blues |
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| 04/2017 | CD Yep Roc ? (US) |
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Hard Travelin' - Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin - Hard Travelin' / Mean Old Frisco / California Desert Blues / Kansas City Blues |
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Albums
| 1986 | LP 12" EPIC EAS 2782 (US) (promo) |
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Interchords - Fourth Of July / Long White Cadillac / Romeo's Escape / Brother On The Line / Border Radio / New Tattoo / One Way Gal |
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| 1987 | CD EPIC EK 40921 (US) |
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Romeo's Escape - Fourth Of July / Long White Cadillac / Every Night About This Time / Romeo's Escape / Brother On The Line / Jubilee Train / Border Radio / Far Away / New Tattoo / You Got Me / I Wish It Was Saturday Night |
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| 1991 | CD Hightone HCD 8029 (US) |
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Blue Blvd - Blue Blvd / Guilty Man / Haley's Comet / Why Did She Stay With Him / Rich Man's Town / Gospel Night / Plastic Rose / Brand New Heart / Wanda And Duane / Andersonville / Dry River |
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| 1992 | CD DIXIEFROG DFGCD 8424 (F) |
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Blue Blvd - Blue Blvd / Guilty Man / Haley's Comet / Why Did She Stay With Him / Rich Man's Town / Gospel Night / Plastic Rose / Brand New Heart / Wanda And Duane / Andersonville / Dry River | ||||
| 06/1992 | CD HIGHTONE HCD 8039 (US) |
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TENNESSEE BORDER - SONNY BURGESS WITH DAVE ALVIN - Tennessee Border / Enough Of You / My Heart Is Achin' For You / Flattop Joint / As Far As I Could Go / Old, Old Man / Automatic Woman / There's Talk In Your Sleep / Stuck Up / I Don't Dig It | ||||
| 1992 | CD HIGHTONE HCD 8049 (US) |
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Museum Of Heart - Museum Of Heart / Don't Talk About Her / A Woman's Got A Right / Between The Cracks / Thirty Dollar Room / The Devil's Wind / Burning In Water Drowning In Flame / One Eye's Ballad / Longer Than I Thought / Six Nights A Week / Stranger In Town / As She Slowly Turns To Leave / Florence Avenue Lullaby |
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| 06/1994 | CD HIGHTONE HCD 8054 (US) |
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King Of California - King Of California / Barn Burning / Fourth Of July / Goodbye Again / East Texas Blues / Every Night About This Time / Bus Station / Mother Earth / Blue Wing / Little Honey / (I Won't Be) Leaving / What Am I Worth (vocals : Syd Straw) / Border Radio |
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| 06/1994 | 2 LP 12" CRAFT / HIGHTONE CR00190 (US) |
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King Of California
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| 1998 | CD HIGHTONE HCD 8091 (US) |
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Blackjack David - Blackjack David / Abilene / New Highway / California Snow / Evening Blues / The Way You Say Good-Bye / Maty Brown / Laurel Lynn / 1968 / From A Kitchen Table / Tall Trees |
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| 1998 | CD HIGHTONE PCD-5365 (JAP) |
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Blackjack David - Blackjack David / Abilene / New Highway / California Snow / Evening Blues / The Way You Say Good-Bye / Maty Brown / Laurel Lynn / 1968 / From A Kitchen Table / Tall Trees / Railroad Bill / How You Want It Done | ||||
| 1999 | 2 CD BUG MUSIC PRCD4 (US) |
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The Songs Of Dave Alvin 1979-1999 :
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| 2001 | CD HIGHTONE HCD 8122 (US) |
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Public Domain - Songs From The Wild Land - Shenandoah / Maggie Campbell / A Short Life Of Trouble / What Did The Deep Sea Say / Engine 143 / Delia / Dark Eyes / Walk Right In / Murder Of The Lawson Family / Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Railroad Bill / Texas Rangers / Mama, Ain't Long For Day / East Virginia Blues / Sign Of Judgment / Saturday Night Rub |
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| 04/2003 | CD Mobile Fidelity Sound UDSACD 2007 (US) |
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Blackjack David - Blackjack David / Abilene / New Highway / California Snow / Evening Blues / The Way You Say Good-Bye / Maty Brown / Laurel Lynn / 1968 / From A Kitchen Table / Tall Trees | ||||
| 07/2004 | CD Yep Roc YEP 2075 (US) |
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Ashgrove - Ashgrove / Rio Grande / Black Sky / Nine Volt Heart / Out Of Control / Everett Ruess / Sinful Daughter / The Man In The Bed / Black Haired Girl / Somewhere In Time |
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| 2006 | CD Yep Roc YEP 2118 (US) |
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West Of The West - California Bloodlines / Redneck Friend / Kern River / Blind Love / Here In California / I Am Bewildered / Sonora's Death Row / Down On The Riverbed / Between The Cracks / Don't Look Now / Tramps And Hawkers / Loser / Surfer Girl |
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| 2006 | CD Yep Roc YEP 2118 (US) (promo) |
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West Of The West - California Bloodlines / Redneck Friend / Kern River / Blind Love / Here In California / I Am Bewildered / Sonora's Death Row / Down On The Riverbed / Between The Cracks / Don't Look Now / Tramps And Hawkers / Loser / Surfer Girl | ||||
| 2007 | CD New West NW6113 (US) |
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Live From Austin TX - King Of California / Barn Burnin' / Mary Brown / Border Radio / Dry River / Out In California / Abilene / Jubilee Train / Do-Re-Me / Promised Land / Blackjack David / Fourth Of July / Marie Marie |
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| 2008 | CD Shout! Factory 826663-11004 (US) |
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The Best Of The Hightone Years - Dry River / King Of California / Haley's Comet / Evening Blues / Fourth Of July / The Cuckoo / California Snow / Dixie Highway Blues / Thirty Dollar Room / Blue Wing / Abilene / Shenandoah / Out In California / Every Night About This Time / Wanda And Duane / Mary Brown / Why Did She Stay With Him / Museum Of Heart |
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| 11/2008 | CD NOT ON LABEL ? (US) |
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Gene Taylor Blues Band Featuring Dave Alvin - Live!!! 605 Boogie!!! - 605 Boogie / Sugarbee / Don't You Lie To Me / Looped / Mardi Gras In New Orleans / Before You Accuse Me / Earl's Guitar Rumba / That's All Right / Down The Road Apiece / What Am I Living For? / Blue Moon Of Kentucky / Lights Out |
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| 06/2011 | CD Yep Roc YEP-2246 (US) |
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Eleven Eleven - Harlan County Line / Johnny Ace Is Dead / Black Rose Of Texas / Gary, Indiana 1959 / Run Conejo Run / No Worries Mija / What's Up With Your Brother? / Murrietta's Head / Manzanita / Dirty Nightgown / Two Lucky Bums (duet with Chris Gaffney) | ||||
| 05/2012 | 3 CD + DVD Yep Roc YEP 2273, YEP-2246, YEP-2263 (US) |
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eleven eleven :
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| 2012 | 2 CD Shout! Factor FLOATM6134 (UK) |
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Blue Boulevard & Museum Of Heart :
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| 2012 | 2 CD Shout! Factor FLOATM6146 (UK) |
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King Of California & Interstate City :
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| 2012 | 2 CD Floating World / Retroworld / Shout! Factor FLOATM6159 (EUR) |
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Blackjack David & Out In California - Dave Alvin / Dave Alvin And The Guilty Men :
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| 2013 | 2 LP 12" Yep Roc YEP 2075 (US) |
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Ashgrove :
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| 2013 | 2 LP 12" Yep Roc YEP 2118 (US) |
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West Of The West :
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| 06/2014 | CD Yep Roc YEP 2384 (US) |
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Common Ground - Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin PLAY AND SING THE SONG OF BIG BILL BROONZY - All By Myself / I Feel So Good / How You Want It Done? / Southern Flood Blues / Big Bill Blues / Key To The Highway / Tomorrow / Just A Dream / You've Changed / Stuff They Call Money / Truckin' Little Woman / Saturday Night Rub |
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| 06/2014 | LP + CD Yep Roc YEP 2384 (US) |
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Common Ground -
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin PLAY AND
SING THE SONG OF BIG BILL BROONZY :
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| 02/2015 | CD RockBeat ROC-CD-3285 (US) |
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Dave Alvin, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Billy Boy Arnold, Joe Louis Walker - Live In Long Beach 1997 - Barn Burning / East Texas Blues / How You Want It Done / Dry River / Chains Of Love / Long White Cadillac / I Wish You Would / San Antonio Rose / Wabash Cannonball / Beer Barrel Polka / Jolie Blon / Jambalaya (On The Bayou) / Long Beach Blues / It's A Long Way Home |
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| 2015 | CD Yep Roc YEP 2447 (US) |
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LOST TIME - Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin - Mister Kicks / World's In A Bad Condition / Cherry Red Blues / Rattlesnakin' Daddy / Hide And Seek / Papa's On The House Top / In New Orleans (Rising Sun Blues) / Please Please Please / Sit Down, Baby / Wee Baby Blues / Feeling Happy / If You See My Savior |
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| 06/2018 | CD Yep Roc YEP 2587 (US) |
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Downey to Lubbock - Dave Alvin / Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Downey To Lubbock / Silverlake / Stealin' Stealin' / July, You're A Woman / Buddy Brown's Blues / The Gardens / Get Together / K.C. Moan / Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Billy The Kid And Geronimo / Deportee - Plane Wreck At Los Gatos / Walk On |
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| 2019 | CD HIGHTONE / CRAFTCR00191 (US) |
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King Of California - King Of California / Barn Burning / Fourth Of July / Goodbye Again / East Texas Blues / Every Night About This Time / Bus Station / Mother Earth / Blue Wing / Little Honey / (I Won't Be) Leaving / What Am I Worth (vocals : Syd Straw) / Border Radio / BONUS TRACKS : Riverbed Rag / The Cuckoo / Kern River | ||||
| 11/2020 | CD Yep Roc YEP-2769 (US) |
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From An Old Guitar - Rare And Unreleased Recordings - Link Of Chain / Highway 61 Revisited / (Variations On Earl Hooker's) Guitar Rhumba / Amanda / Albuquerque / Mobile Blue / Perdido Street Blues / On The Way Downtown / Inside / Krazy And Ignatz / Peace / Man Walks Among Us / Beautiful City 'Cross The River / Dynamite Woman / Who's Been Here / Signal Hill Blues |
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| 06/2024 | CD Yep Roc YEP-3077 (US) |
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Texicali - Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Borderland / Southwest Chief / Broke Down Engine / Trying To Be Free / Blind Owl / Death Of The Last Stripper / Roll Around / Betty And Dupree / Why I'm Walking / Down The 285 / We're Still Here |
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