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- The duo cherry-picked selected covers that played to both artist’s strengths, swapping vocals as Gilmore’s reedy voice showed a natural inclination for blues, and Alvin’s gruffer slant translated remarkably well to the folk/country format.
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Jun 21, 2024 · TexiCali also found Alvin and Gilmore increasingly focusing on original songs. Among them are “Trying To Be Free,” which Gilmore wrote more than 50 years ago; “Southwest Chief,” a collaboration between Alvin and the late Bill Morrissey; and “Death of the Last Stripper,” which Alvin wrote with Terry Allen and his wife Jo Harvey Allen.
Jun 26, 2024 · Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s 'TexiCali' is a testimony to a lifelong friendship and musical partnership between the two musicians. The pair is still traveling down the musical highways that stretches between Alvin’s California and Gilmore’s Texas, spicing up their tunes with ingredients from honky tonk, blues, and country.
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.
Aug 7, 2024 · The music critic Don McLeese once said of the Flatlanders, the fabled band of the Texas Panhandle, “A lot of bands pretend to be friends; these were friends who had once pretended to be a band.” During the early 1970s, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, and Joe Ely, the principal members of the Fla
Jun 22, 2024 · But it still came as a surprise when blues/Americana rocker Dave Alvin (ex-Blasters) teamed up with folk/country veteran Jimmie Dale Gilmore (The Flatlanders) in 2018 for the appropriately monikered Downey to Lubbock (their home towns) album and subsequent tour.
Jun 28, 2024 · Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Dave Alvin must have two of the most distinctive voices in Americana. Of course they also both have long and distinguished careers including many solo albums as well as work with the Flatlanders and the Blasters, and in Alvin’s case two albums with his brother Phil.
Jun 28, 2024 · Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore recently released their new album, TexiCali, via YepRoc Records. It marks their first release together in six years, and was built around their experiences performing with their touring band The Guilty Ones, which in turn prompted them to record in a more full-band way than they had in the past.
