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David on acoustic guitar all night with Chris Miller on electric guitar, slide, mandolin, acoustic, etc. They were joined, often, by Cindy Wasserman of Dead Rock West, who opened for the show, and were wonderful. This concert is a complete menu of songs from King of California, complete with unreleased tracks. Encore was Abeilene and Dry River. This is not a rockin' get up and dance performance (more country than rock as the CD of 25 years ago was), but one full of reminiscing, which Dave does in a number of stories introducing the songs. Supposedly he is writing a book!

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Unable to go to Concert at all. Main reason being I was not notified by Spotify when to purchase tickets , apparently in March. I tried in vain to get matter clarified with Kat Wright's people & they did work on it for me, but I wasn't able to attend due to short notice. It agonizes me. Something screwed up somewhere in the "failure to communicate" realm as witnessed in Paul Newman's film "Cool Hand Luke"-Arrrrgggg.

Once again Kat Wright's people are not to blame here, but rather the I fault Spotifyscrewed up in my opinion.

Great show. Dave had amp problems. They had to chat for awhile. Live music at its best.

Love Smilin Productions aka Scott Holbrook for pulling together such great artists.

And a big thanks to the Oddfellow folks for graciously letting us enjoy such a cool venue.

Great show at the Kessler in Dallas. Every time I see Alvin, I feel like I’ve forgotten how good he is and love the rediscovery. Even the songs I’ve heard before feel exciting, as if it’s a new discovery. A great talent that I never miss if he comes close.

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On casual reflection, the average roots music fan would not think of Dave Alvin as an intellectual. Dave began his career with brother Phil as co-founders of blues-rocking band The Blasters in 1979. “There’s still people who define me as being the snot-nosed loud mouth goofball that was the guitar player in the Blasters,” he says today. 

Dave is currently on tour with Jimmie Dale Gilmore of Flatlanders fame. They will release their second album together in October, but currently have a single out called “Borderland.”  

“ We’re still making the album,” says Dave. “The album is almost done. We’re going back in October to finish it. But (the label) wanted to put something out, and that was the song they considered the most commercial, the Americana feel.”

Commercial is not a label Dave or I would immediately use to describe his music. Organic is his descriptor. We got into that when I asked him what kind of rules he has about not having rules? 

“It may sound corny,” he shot back. 

Go ahead, I said. You have my permission. 

“Let me use a terrible word, but it’s applicable; the best word I can come up with is it’s organic.” 

He’s right, I told him. That’s a groaner. 

“It’s a groaner, but it’s organic.” 

I asked him to define organic. 

“That it comes from our roots. That it’s not diluted. I’ll define it this way. I never made a disco record.” 

Thank you, Jesus! 

“Yeah. I’ve done a lot of things in my career that have made people cock their heads like puppies. ‘What’s he doing?’  But what it really boils down to is all I’m doing on guitar is playing Lightnin’ Hopkins. It’s just different situations, and that’s been a constant. So, my attitude has always been to take what limited skills I have and see where I can go with it because I’m not Django Reinhardt. I’m not Lonnie Johnson as a guitar player. I’m me, and look, how far can we take this, and how many different situations can we put this into?” 

Dave has recorded with such diverse artists as Bobby Rush, Tom Waits, John Mellencamp, Little Milton, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and The Knitters. His songs have been recorded by Los Lobos, Dwight Yoakam, James McMurtry, Buckwheat Zydeco, Joe Ely, Robert Earl Keen and Marshall Crenshaw.  

Does he think his greatest talent is as a lyricist? 

“Yeah, there’s a zillion guitar players in the world. Songwriters are a little rarer. Not as rare as they used to be, but they are a little rarer. Guitar players? yeah. I’m a good guitar player. I’m ok. That’s all you need to be.” 

I’m going to see him and Jimmie.  

“Well, bring earplugs.” (Laugh) 

Are they that loud?  

“It isn’t quite that loud, but I get my point across.” 

Well, I’ve already lost my hearing, I tell him, but it doesn’t matter. He laughs. At 79, I have tinnitus. I jokingly tell him I can’t tell the difference between what they’re playing and what I’m hearing inside my head. 

But I digress. About Dave’s being an intellectual.  

In 2000, Dave won a Grammy for Public Domain: Songs From the Wild Land , a collection of traditional folk and blues classics. He’s written several books of poetry, and The Los Angeles Times wrote him up for a reunion he had with Gerald Locklin, his Cal State Long Beach professor. 

“Gerald Locklin was the first teacher kind of person who thought I might have some sort of brain. Not a lot, but some sort of brain. At one point he was the most published poet in the United States because he was the king of the small presses. That’s when there used to be a ton of small press magazines. He was an amazing teacher, a great poet and a good friend, and he sort of opened my eyes to what poetry is capable of doing, non-traditional poetry. Let’s put it that way.” 

John Pennerstaff in the article said that Dave Alvin learned to write poetic songs not from listening to blues heroes like Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, and Marty Robbins but from Locklin, and specifically “Dry River.” 

I fell in love with a woman, but she did not love me Well, I fell in love with you baby, but you did not love me Now I’m as dry as that old river, and I’m as dead as those old trees Someday it’s gonna rain, someday it’s gonna pour Someday this old heart of mine’s gonna fall in love once more Someday it’s gonna rain, someday it’s gonna pour Someday this old dry river, it won’t be dry anymore 

“It’s funny. Locklin besides being a poetry teacher also taught history of English literature. We got drunk one night ’cause there was a bar on campus. We had become close friends, and he had me teach the class because he was too drunk to teach it. (Chuckle)  

“So, you can imagine what kind of guy he was. I taught the class on the English pamphleteers Addison and Steele from the early 18 th century. He looked at me and said, ‘I don’t think I can do this tonight,’ and he hands me his book, and it was all this information right there. ‘Ok, tonight we’re doing Addison and Steel.’ I was pretty sauced myself. 

“Jerry was a great guy, a great teacher. Taking the imagery of offbeat poetry that I was attracted to whether it was by Tchaikovsky or Gerald Locklin, or even prose writers like Ramond Chandler and people like that, and if I can put that in song, that’s great. So, that’s what I’ve tried to do my whole career. That’s why I’m stubborn. 

“They probably have courses now in schools for songwriting, but you really learn on your own, and everybody does it different, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, what I learned growing up listening to old blues records was the same lesson that my brother Phil and I learned hanging around Big Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker as kids which is you gotta write your own blues.

“The thing as a songwriter I learned from him – there was a thing my brother Phil could imitate Big Joe Turner early on and he still can, or he could until his recent health issues, but he sang first like Big Joe, and when my brother was 15 or 16 years old, Big Joe took him aside and told him ‘Look, do me a favor quit embarrassing yourself, quit embarrassing me and find your own way to sing,’ and that lesson sunk in to both my brother and me. 

“(A song) could be a poem disguised as a song, complete with a drum solo, but not. I learned songwriting because all songwriters are self-taught whether you’re Robert Johnson or Hank Williams or Lennon and McCartney. It doesn’t matter if you’re self-taught.  

“They probably have courses now in schools for songwriting, but you really learn on your own, and everybody does it differently, blah, blah, blah. But yeah, what I learned growing up listening to old blues records was the same lesson that my brother Phil and I learned hanging around Big Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker as kids, which is you gotta write your own blues.” 

Dave has chemistry with Jimmie Dale Gilmore like he does with Locklin. “Jimmy’s had an interesting life, and he’s done a lot of things besides music, you know, that are odd and interesting and intriguing, but then, later in life in his 40s, he got some major label push where they just put a lot of promotion, this, that and the other into him and his music and his career.” 

The Flatlanders came out in the ’70s, and it was 20 years before anybody figured out how good it was. 

“Yeah, but he got a major label push in the ’90s to make him into a star, make him not the Flatlanders, him through Elektra Records, and that kind of stuff can mess with your brain. And I’ve had a lot of friends that have gone down that route that no longer play music, because it messed with their brain. 

“There are demands placed on you that you feel, both financial and ‘gee, is this record gonna make up for the fact that they spent half a million dollars to promote it?’ So, Jimmy kinda went through that. He got through it, and in his brain he retired from music.  

“He didn’t officially retire, but he wasn’t gonna be some gigantic star. He wasn’t gonna be a big country star or whatever star. And yeah, his attitude now is, I don’t give a fuck. I’ll do whatever I want, you know? And that always has been my attitude. So, our first album we did together has everything from a Youngbloods song ‘Let’s Get Together’ to a Lightnin’ Hopkins number to a Memphis Jug Band number. It just doesn’t matter. It’s like whatever we feel like doing, we’re gonna do it.” 

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Dave Alvin’s Third Mind Kick Off First Ever Tour in Portland, OR with Mind-expanding Psych Jams (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)

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Did legendary guitarist Dave Alvin sit down one day and think, what would it be like to start a band in the vein of the 60s-era Grateful Dead and other jam-loving cohorts? Because this is essentially the premise of his current project, an all-star collective of sorts that finds Alvin teaming up with a handful of mega-talented musician friends to craft the kind of kaleidoscopic rock that lends itself to improvisation. The Third Mind’s mix of original tunes alongside covers of old folk, blues and psychedelic rock songs has now transpired over two acclaimed albums. Yet somehow, since first getting together in 2019 (or maybe even earlier), they have only played a single show, an odd feat since their style of music practically begs to be experienced live. Lucky for us, the band is finally embarking on their first tour and on Thursday, January 11th they officially kicked it off in Portland, Oregon at Mississippi Studios.   

Before The Third Mind took the stage, LA paisley pop outfit Rain Parade played an opening set that veered from the jangly guitars of “What She’s Done to Your Mind,” the early Pink Floyd mixed with dream pop of “Forgetfullness,” and a slow duet with folk harmonies and little touches of harmonica that veered right into the droning shoegaze rock of “No Easy Way Down” before climaxing with a blistering guitar solo. Their set was undoubedtly nostalgic for good chunk of the crowd, and their ability to transport the audience back in time served as a proper introduction before The Third Mind would go even deeper. 

With Dave Alvin looking dapper as always in his California cowboy getup, the band wasted little time in launching their set with a version of “Morning Dew” that would have made Jerry Garcia smile. Jesse Sykes set the mood with her hauntingly lonesome vocals while Alvin’s twang-laced guitar work set the stage for Mark Karan – subbing for David Immergluck – to enter the scene with some serious firepower, all rolling along to Michael Jerome’s rumbling thunder rhythm. Considering Karan’s credentials in the Grateful Dead world, his Garcia-esque stylings would come in handy throughout the night as a feisty counterpart to Alvin’s airier picking. He complemented Alvin’s guitar bliss on the Mike Bloomfield psych-blues tune “Groovin’ Is Easy,” while both kept it swampy and loose with plenty of guitar jousting on Paul Butterfield’s “In My Own Dream.”

While Sykes was a steady and calming presence throughout the night, she truly stepped into the spotlight with her original song “Tall Grass,” a crafty work of cosmic folk that ascended into guitar-soaked fury as Karan and Alvin gleefully traded licks. Victor Krummenacher’s bass grooves would also prove to be a steady force, propelling the jams further and allowing the guitarists to stretch out. The band’s take on the classic R&B tune “Sally Go ’round the Roses” saw the guitar opening up with sinister delight as Alvin injected frenzied bursts into the groove and Karan teased a flamenco-esque solo. In the home stretch of a nearly 90-minute set, the band guided the audience back down to earth with a twinkly, sun-washed take on Fred Neil’s gorgeous folk-soul tune “Little Bit of Rain” that bloomed into a wall of deliciously funky sound as the expansive “East West.” 

The Third Mind might scoff at calling themselves a jam band, but their mind-expanding set in Portland made it clear that they may just be the coolest jam band out there right now whether they like it or not. Alvin joked to the crowd about not rehearsing, and if this was true then you wouldn’t have noticed by their natural tightness. There was only one slip-up when, after encoring with another Fred Neil cover in “Dolphins” that featured Sykes and Alvin dueting, they decided to give the crowd even more with a rip-roaring blues cover of “Highway 61 Revisited” that saw Alvin whispering the lyrics to Sykes. Then again, it was this moment of spontaneity that captured the special chemistry that exists between these musicians and exactly what makes them such an exciting live act.

All photos by Greg Homolka.

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Thanks for the photos and review. It certainly was an great set by the Third Mind. The blistering finish of Highway 61 was a highlight.

Perfect set list of songs that gave the band plenty of leeway while allowing them individually to shine. Found myself rocking with the drummer and mesmerized by his skills… just wow. I needed this show and it delivered.

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Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore Releasing New Album, ‘Texicali’

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Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore have announced the June 21, 2024, release of TexiCali , a new studio album, via Yep Roc Records, with the first single “We’re Still Here.” The Grammy-winning Alvin, who first came to prominence in the Los Angeles band the Blasters, and Grammy nominee Gilmore, a founding member of West Texas’ country trio the Flatlanders, first joined together in 2017 for what they thought was a one-off tour, that instead turned into the collaborative debut album Downey To Lubbock .

TexiCali can be pre-ordered in the U.S. here and in the U.K. here . The pair have also announced a tour; see the itinerary below.

Says a press release, “Behind blistering blues licks, Alvin and Gilmore recount the road that’s brought them to TexiCali from wild nights at Houston’s dearly-departed Allen Park Inn to fateful run-ins with clueless record company men and harrowing drives down one way streets.”

The 11 tracks on TexiCali , the announcement continues, “double as a road trip across Alvin and Gilmore’s beloved home states and the memories within, honoring shared musical influences, friends gone too soon and all they’ve endured along the way. Two of Americana’s most celebrated storytellers, the pair now elevate their partnership from touring to recording to songwriting, with TexiCali incorporating more original work and collaborations than ever before. Together they reflect on experiences like touring the country via train with Roots on the Rails , working with contemporaries like Terry Allen and Butch Hancock, and formative shows from blues legends like Brownie McGhee at Los Angeles’ Ash Grove (frequented by both Dave and Jimmie, unbeknownst to them at the time).”

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“We’re Still Here” Tour Dates (Tickets are available here and via the individual venues) Jul 06 – Nicasio, CA – Rancho Nicasio Jul 07 – Nicasio, CA – Rancho Nicasio Jul 11 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theatre Jul 12 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern Jul 13 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tavern Jul 17 – Chico, CA – Chico Women’s Club Jul 18 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel Jul 19 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s Jul 20 – Santa Cruz, CA – Moe’s Alley Jul 21 – Morro Bay, CA – The Siren Jul 23 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Jul 24 – West Hollywood, CA – Troubadour Aug 21 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse Aug 22 – Brownfield, ME – Stone Mountain Arts Center Aug 23 – Boston, MA – City Winery Aug 24 – Fall River, MA – Take Me to the River Aug 25 – Woodstock, NY – Levon Helm Studios Aug 27 – New York, NY – City Winery Aug 28 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live Aug 29 – Alexandria, VA – Birchmere Aug 30 – Richmond, VA – Tin Pan

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History - 1970

Ailey goes on landmark ussr tour.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the school relocate to 229 East 59th Street in Manhattan to share a renovated church building with Pearl Lang. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Pearl Lang Dance Company share rehearsal space while Alvin Ailey and Pearl Lang co-direct their joint school, the American Dance Center, in the three available studios.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s second State Department-sponsored tour of North Africa and Europe.

Affected by a financial crisis common to all dance companies in America, Alvin Ailey issues a statement that the Company may be dissolved because of insufficient funds to keep its dancers employed for “a reasonable amount of time each year.”

Dance Theater Foundation, Inc., a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, is created to help seek sustaining funds for the Company.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater goes on a six-week tour of the USSR—the first for an American modern dance company since the days of Isadora Duncan. The Washington Post reports that the Company was kept onstage for 20 minutes of curtain calls after a sold-out opening night performance at Moscow’s Variety Theater.

Alvin Ailey choreographs The River for American Ballet Theatre.

Alvin Ailey is awarded the Gold Star for Best Modern Dance Company and Best Modern Dance Choreographer at the 1970 International Dance Festival.

Joined the Repertory in 1970

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Child of the Earth

Child of Earth , a duet by Kelvin Rotardier, was created in 1970. Mr Rotardier used the music of South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela. The piece tells the story of an anguished couple’s journey as they move to higher ground.

Ailey soars through the radiant grandeur of Maurice Béjart’s famous ballet, Firebird. This glorious work reinterprets the traditional fairytale as an allegory of revolution, idealism and rebirth, played out against Igor Stravinsky’s glorious score.

Gymnopedies

Streams is an abstract exploration of bodies in space, danced to a percussion score by Miloslav Kabelac. This standout work was Alvin Ailey’s first full-length dance without a plot. A great success when it premiered in 1970, it was brought back into the active repertory in 2011 during Robert Battle’s inaugural season as artistic director, in homage to Ailey’s legacy and artistry.

The movement in Streams is a highly structured yet fluid compilation of solos, duets and group passages, built chiefly on diagonal lines, all reflecting the meditative mood of the score. Each section is inspired by a body of water, from gentle brook to turbulent ocean, representing the changing emotional tides within us. “It exposes its dancers and their technique in ways I find often heroic and beautiful,” proclaimed The New York Times.

This new production is dedicated to Patricia and Philip Laskawy for their long-standing commitment to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

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