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Dave Alvin

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David Albert Alvin (born November 11, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, music producer and poet. [1]

83 relations: Acoustic music, AllMusic, Alternative country, Alternative rock, American Music (album), Americana (music), Anthology, Ashgrove (album), Big Bill Broonzy, Big Joe Turner, Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Billboard charts, Blackjack David, Bloodshot Records, Blue Blvd, Border Radio, Bull Durham, California State University, Long Beach, Chris Gaffney (musician), Columbia Records, Common Ground: Dave & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy, Country folk, Country music, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women, Denise Sullivan, Downey, California, Dwight Yoakam, Eleven Eleven, Folk music, From Dusk till Dawn, FX (TV channel), Grammy Award, Hard Line (album), HighTone Records, IMDb, Independent Albums, Internet Archive, Interstate City, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Justified (TV series), Katy Moffatt, King of California (album), Little Milton, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Mojo Nixon, Museum of Heart, Out in California, ..., Phil Alvin, Public Domain (album), Punk rock, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Rhino Entertainment, Rockabilly, Rolling Stone, Romeo's Escape, Roots rock, See How We Are, Shakin' Stevens, Six Feet Under (TV series), Sonny Burgess, Steve Berlin, Streets of Fire, Syd Straw, The Beat Farmers, The Blasters, The Blasters (album), The Derailers, The Flesh Eaters, The Gun Club, The Knitters, The Las Vegas Story (album), The Wall Street Journal, This Ole House (album), Tom Russell, Top Heatseekers, Uncut (magazine), Vintage Guitar (magazine), West of the West, X (American band), Yep Roc Records. Expand index (33 more) »

Acoustic music

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative country

Alternative country (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, or Americana) is a loosely defined subgenre of country music and rock music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music and pop country music.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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American Music (album)

American Music is the debut album by American rock and roll band The Blasters released in 1980.

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Americana (music)

Americana is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, gospel, and other external influences.

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Anthology

In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler.

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Ashgrove (album)

Ashgrove is an album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 2004.

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Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley, June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Big Joe Turner

Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri.

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Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys

Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys is a western swing/country boogie musical band from California.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Blackjack David

Blackjack David is the sixth album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 1998.

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Bloodshot Records

Bloodshot Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois that specializes in roots-infused indie rock, punk rock, and alternative country.

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Blue Blvd

Blue Blvd is an album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 1991.

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Border Radio

Border Radio is a 1987 independent film directed by Allison Anders, Dean Lent and Kurt Voss, in which two musicians and a roadie who haven't been paid rob money from a club and one flees to Mexico leaving his wife and daughter behind.

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Bull Durham

Bull Durham is a 1988 American romantic comedy sports film.

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California State University, Long Beach

California State University, Long Beach (CSULB; also known as Long Beach State, Cal State Long Beach, LBSU, or The Beach) is the third largest campus of the 23-school California State University system (CSU) and one of the largest universities in the state of California by enrollment, its student body numbering 37,776 for the Fall 2016 semester.

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Chris Gaffney (musician)

Chris Gaffney (October 3, 1950 – April 17, 2008) was an American singer and songwriter from the Southwest.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Common Ground: Dave & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy

Common Ground: Dave & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy is a studio album by folk rock musicians Dave and Phil Alvin, released in 2014.

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Country folk

Country folk as a genre label is a rather nebulous one, but one that has been employed often at least since the mid-1970s.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women

Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women is an album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 2009.

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Denise Sullivan

Denise Sullivan is an American music journalist and historian who is the author of music biographies as well as the critically acclaimed music-history book, Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop.

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Downey, California

Downey is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County, California, United States, southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

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Dwight Yoakam

Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, known for his pioneering-style of country music.

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Eleven Eleven

Eleven Eleven is the eleventh studio album by folk rock musician Dave Alvin.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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From Dusk till Dawn

From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 American black comedy action horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino.

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FX (TV channel)

FX (originally an initialism of Fox Extended, pronounced and suggesting "effects") is an American basic cable and satellite television channel based in Los Angeles, California, owned by 21st Century Fox through FX Networks, LLC.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Hard Line (album)

Hard Line is the fourth album by American rock and roll band The Blasters, released in 1985.

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HighTone Records

HighTone Records was an American independent record label based in Oakland, California, United States.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Independent Albums

The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Interstate City

Interstate City is a live album by American artist Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men, released in 1996.

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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Lyricist Jerome "Jerry" Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Mike Stoller (born Michael Stoller; March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners.

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Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is an American country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas.

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Justified (TV series)

Justified is an American crime drama television series that premiered on March 16, 2010, on the FX network.

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Katy Moffatt

Katherine Louella "Katy" Moffatt (born November 19, 1950) is an American musician, lyricist, composer, vocalist.

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King of California (album)

King of California is an album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 1994.

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Little Milton

James Milton Campbell Jr. (September 7, 1934 – August 4, 2005), better known as Little Milton, was an American blues singer and guitarist, best known for his hit records "Grits Ain't Groceries," "Walking the Back Streets and Crying," and "We're Gonna Make It.".

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Los Angeles Times Magazine

The Los Angeles Times Magazine (also shortened to just LA) was a monthly magazine which supplemented the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times newspaper on the first Sunday of the month.

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Mojo Nixon

Mojo Nixon (born Neill Kirby McMillan, Jr.; August 2, 1957) is an American psychobilly musician.

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Museum of Heart

Museum of Heart is an album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 1993.

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Out in California

Out in California is a live album by American artist Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men, released in 2002.

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Phil Alvin

Philip Joseph Alvin (born March 6, 1953) is an American singer and guitarist known primarily as the leader of the rock band The Blasters.

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Public Domain (album)

Public Domain (subtitled Songs from the Wild Land) is an album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 2000.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliot Charles Adnopoz; August 1, 1931) is an American folk singer and performer.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Romeo's Escape

Romeo's Escape is the debut album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 1987.

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Roots rock

Roots rock is rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music.

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See How We Are

See How We Are is the sixth studio album by American rock band X, released in 1987 by Elektra Records.

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Shakin' Stevens

Michael Barratt (born 4 March 1948), known as Shakin' Stevens, is a platinum-selling Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter who was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s.

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Six Feet Under (TV series)

Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball.

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Sonny Burgess

Albert Austin "Sonny" Burgess (May 28, 1929 – August 18, 2017) was an American rockabilly guitarist and singer.

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Steve Berlin

Steven M. Berlin (born September 14, 1955, Philadelphia) is an American saxophonist, keyboardist and record producer, best known as a member of the rock group Los Lobos and, before that, Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs, the Blasters, and the Flesh Eaters.

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Streets of Fire

Streets of Fire is a 1984 film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Larry Gross.

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Syd Straw

Syd Straw is an American rock singer and songwriter.

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The Beat Farmers

The Beat Farmers were an American cowpunk band, which formed in San Diego, California, in August 1983, and enjoyed a cult following into the early 1990s before the death of drummer and sometime lead singer Country Dick Montana.

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The Blasters

The Blasters are a rock and roll band formed in 1978 in Downey, California, by brothers Phil Alvin (vocals and guitar) and Dave Alvin (guitar), with bass guitarist John Bazz and drummer Bill Bateman.

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The Blasters (album)

The Blasters is the second album by American rock and roll band The Blasters.

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The Derailers

The Derailers are an American country music band based in Austin, Texas.

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The Flesh Eaters

The Flesh Eaters are an American punk rock and Rockabilly band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1977.

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The Gun Club

The Gun Club were a post-punk/cowpunk band from Los Angeles, California that existed from 1979 to 1996.

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The Knitters

The Knitters are a Los Angeles-based band who play country, rockabilly and folk music.

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The Las Vegas Story (album)

The Las Vegas Story is the third studio album by punk blues group The Gun Club, released in 1984.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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This Ole House (album)

This Ole House is a 1980 album by Welsh rock and roll singer Shakin' Stevens.

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Tom Russell

Thomas George "Tom" Russell (born March 5, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Top Heatseekers

Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine.

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Uncut (magazine)

Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London.

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Vintage Guitar (magazine)

Vintage Guitar magazine is a consumer publication that focuses on vintage and classic fretted instruments, amplifiers, effects, and related gear, as well as notable players from all genres and eras.

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West of the West

West of the West is an album by American artist Dave Alvin, released in 2004.

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X (American band)

X is an American punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1977, among the first wave of American punk.

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Yep Roc Records

Yep Roc Records is an American independent record label based in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and owned by Redeye Distribution.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Alvin

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