Articles tagged "dave alvin"

Events Review

Old Settler’s Music Festival: 18 April 2009 - Austin, TX

by Greg M. Schwartz

[9.Jun.09] :. From bluegrass to the blues, the Old Settler’s Music Festival has been serving up Americana-style roots music since 1987.

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Dave Alvin: The Best of the Hightone Years

by Joseph Carver

[30.Jan.09] :. A roots rock icon gets the retro treatment from Shout and does not disappoint.

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Dave Alvin: West of the West

by Dan MacIntosh

[26.Jul.06] :. Dave Alvin is like a history teacher with a guitar. But instead of penning his own history textbook, he's given us lessons through other people's words with this CD. If history was this entertaining back when I attended high school, I probably wouldn't have fallen asleep so often in class.

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Dave Alvin: Ashgrove

by Jason MacNeil

[16.Jul.04] :. The first time I heard of Dave Alvin was my second year of university, rooting through the various delete bins of cassettes looking for that next sleeper selection. Finding a collection of the...

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Dave Alvin: Public Domain

by Kevin Oliver

[14.Aug.00] :. The defining moment of Dave Alvin’s new album comes early—on the opening song, in fact. His version of the standard, “Shenandoah,” is a revelation. One of those songs that...

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