When Dave Alvin was 12 or 13, he and his brother Phil would sneak off to The Ash Grove, an L.A. folk/blues club, where they'd watch Big Joe Turner, Lightning Hopkins and T-Bone Walker. Now Alvin is ...

Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Dave Alvin will appear together tomorrow night at the Arts Campus at Willits with their band, the Guilty Ones. They are touring behind their second album that they have made ...

Dave Alvin was barely into his 20s when he wrote “American Music,” the roots-rock anthem that serves as his watchword. With the Blasters, the Knitters, and on his own, Alvin surveys the expanse of ...