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Dave Alvin (born November 11, 1955, in Downey, California, USA) is a guitarist, singer and songwriter. November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ...
1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Downey is a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States, 21 km (13 miles) southeast of downtown Los Angeles. ...
Steve Howe playing lead guitar for Yes in 1977 A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ...
Early Musical Influences Dave Alvin and his older brother Phil grew up in a music loving family in Downey, California. As teenagers, they regularly attended Blues, Rockabilly, and Country night clubs where they saw performances by greats like T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner, and Lee Allen, who later joined Dave and Phil in The Blasters. Walker, who had dated the Alvin brothers' mother, taught Dave guitar in 1970. Downey is a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States, 21 km (13 miles) southeast of downtown Los Angeles. ...
The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on a pentatonic scale and a characteristic twelve-bar chord progression. ...
1950s Rockabilly book by Harlan Ellison Rockabilly is the earliest form of rock and roll as a distinct style of music. ...
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Aaron Thibeaux Walker or T-Bone Walker or Oak Cliff T-Bone (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the most influential musicians of the early 20th century. ...
For the ice hockey player see Joe Turner Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr, May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues singer from Kansas City, Missouri. ...
Lee Allen (1926 - 1994) was a tenor saxophone player. ...
The Blasters are a rock music group formed in 1979 in Downey, California by brothers Phil Alvin (vocals and guitar) and Dave Alvin (guitar), with bass guitarist John Bazz and drummer Bill Bateman. ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
Blasters In 1979 Dave and his brother formed roots rock group The Blasters with fellow Downey, California residents Bill Bateman and John Bazz. 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. This page refers to the year 1979. ...
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The Blasters are a rock music group formed in 1979 in Downey, California by brothers Phil Alvin (vocals and guitar) and Dave Alvin (guitar), with bass guitarist John Bazz and drummer Bill Bateman. ...
Downey is a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States, 21 km (13 miles) southeast of downtown Los Angeles. ...
Nickname: City of Angels Official website: http://www. ...
A cult following is a group of fans devoted to a specific item, usually a film, television or radio program, though some comic books, musicians, writers or others also gain dedicated followings. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
X Shortly after leaving the Blasters, Alvin joined X as lead guitarist after the departure of Billy Zoom. Alvin amicably left the group to work on a solo project shortly after the recording sessions for their album See How We Are. Dave is also a member of country band The Knitters (composed mainly of members of X), appearing on 1987's Poor Little Critter on the Road and the 2005 follow-up, The Modern Sounds of The Knitters. X on the cover of their 1997 collection Beyond and Back: The X Anthology. ...
X on the cover of their 1997 collection Beyond and Back: The X Anthology, with Billy on the center left Billy Zoom (born Tyson Kindell on February 20, 1948), in Savanna, IL. The son of a Big Band woodwinds player, he inherited his fathers love of music. ...
The Knitters are a Los Angeles based band that play country and folk music. ...
Solo 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 which 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.) Mojo Nixon (born August 2, 1957) is a satirical psychobilly musician. ...
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 in 1991, Blue Blvd received enthusiastic reviews and sold well enough to re-establish Alvin as a significant artist in the roots rock scene. Dwight Yoakam at the unveiling of his Hollywood star. ...
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). 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...
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. This article is about the year 2000. ...
Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...
Other trivia In the early 1980's Dave, along with fellow Blasters members Bill Bateman and Steve Berlin, performed on several albums with the Los Angeles punk band The Flesh Eaters. These albums are considered pre-cursers to what is now called Death Rock. The Flesh Eaters 1980: Chris D., DJ Bonebrake, Dave Alvin, John Doe, Steve Berlin, Bill Bateman The Flesh Eaters are a Los Angeles deathrock band whose peak of popularity was in the late 1970s and early 80s. ...
Death Rock (also spelled Deathrock) is a term used to identify a playfully spooky offshoot of Punk Rock which first appeared in Los Angeles during the late 1970s and early 1980s, then later merged with the New Wave and Glam influenced Batcave musical scene to form Gothic Rock. ...
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, as well as collaborating 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. Tom Russell with a fan at a gig in the UK, 2003 Thomas George Tom Russell (born in 1950 in Los Angeles) is an American singer-songwriter. ...
Blasters discography - American Music, 1980
- Blasters, 1981
- Over There, 1982
- Non Fiction, 1983
- Hard Line, 1985
- The Blasters Collection, 1990
- Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings, 2002
- The Blasters Live - Going Home, 2004
Blasters videography - Streets of Fire, 1984
- The Blasters Live - Going Home, 2004
X discography
The Knitters discography - Poor Little Critter on the Road, 1985
- The Modern Sounds of the Knitters, 2005
Dave Alvin discography - Romeo's Escape, 1987
- Blue Boulevard, 1991
- Museum of Heart, 1993
- King of California, 1994
- Interstate City, 1996
- Blackjack David, 1998
- Public Domain, 2000
- Out in California, 2002
- Outtakes in California, 2002
- Ashgrove, 2004
- Live from the Great American Galaxy, 2005
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