November 14, 2008

Dave Alvin -- FREE INSTORE

Dave Alvin Free In-store Performance
Wednesday, December 3rd - 7:00pm

If you've been listening, you'll recall that every time I get the chance, I talk about how great it was the last time Dave stopped in to play a set for us. I'm sure I've stuck with my assertion that it was one of the best in-stores we've ever had, and I'll say it again; if I only had 3 quarters to put in the "I wanna hear it again" jukebox, at least one of them would be spent listening to Dave's in-store.

Grammy award winning singer/songwriter/bar-room guitar player Dave Alvin has been a constant force in traditional American roots music, both electric and acoustic, for over 25 years. From his earliest days with roots pioneers The Blasters through his stints with punk rock/folkies X and The Knitters through his various solo releases, Dave has mixed blues, folk, rockabilly, rhythm and blues, country, surf, cajun and even doo wop into his own unique brand of American Music. His songs have been recorded by Los Lobos, Buckwheat Zydeco, Robert Earl Kean, Dwight Yoakam, Kelly Willis, James McMurtry, Joe Ely and Little Milton to name a few, and have been heard in tv shows like The Sopranos. Most recently, he's released The Best of the Hightone Years, an overview of his early solo releases and including 3 unreleased tracks.

Dave will be stopping in for his second Fingerprints in-store and we're opening the pre-order guest list right...now. Either give us a ring or stop in and pick up The Best of the Hightone Years, or any other Dave Alvin release and we'll throw your name onto our guest list. If you want to wait it out, we'll open the first come, first served (didn't want to buy an album) list a day or two before show-time.

Dave says, "There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both." We're not sure which of these two he'll be delivering when he plays the store, but the part left out is that he kicks serious ass at both.

Check his Myspace page here, or click here to download a couple of NPR features.

Click here to sample/buy The Best of the Hightone Years