“Some of the stuff that’s in [the book] was written knowing that I may never play music again,” says Dave Alvin, chatting from his home in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. “Or I may…. I may be ...

In these days of dwindling music sales Grammy winning rocker Dave Alvin is just like everyone else – trying to find new ways to get his music heard. Alvin, who will appear at the Iron Horse Music Hall ...

“I’m not really a professional songwriter,” Dave Alvin insists. “I tried it when I was living in Nashville in the late ‘80s. Tried the cowriting thing, but I just wasn’t good at it.Back then, the two ...

Dave Alvin didn’t set out to write an Independence Day song when he started recounting a day in his life on paper 40 some years ago. He wasn’t even writing a song. But, years after he took out the pen ...

Dave Alvin didn’t set out to write a song when he started recounting a day in his life on paper 40 some years ago. But, years later, Alvin used that writing to create one of his classics, “Fourth of ...

Dave Alvin knows that music isn’t created in a vacuum. And although he excels at all four styles, he’d be the first to tell you that he didn’t invent blues, country, folk or rock. Calling him the ...

“The King of California” was the album that introduced Dave Alvin as a singer/songwriter. That sounds wrong, since he’d been playing guitar and writing songs for years, first as lead guitarist in The ...

Dave Alvin's songs have an exquisite sense of place. Names such as Abilene, the Rio Grande, and the late Los Angeles club the Ashgrove stud his lyrics. Conversely, the song's narrators are transients, ...

Whenever Dave Alvin shared a poetry reading stage with his old teacher, Gerald Locklin would tell the audience that, were Alvin not such a gifted songwriter and musician, he would have made a fine ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Dave Alvin - Grammy award winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Dave Alvin started his career along side his brother, Phil, in the seminal roots rock band The Blasters that they formed together in 1979.