--- - |- This Labor Day Weekend in Los Angeles, it will feel more like 1978 than 2008... LA's original underground, punk rock and local legends will rock Safari Sam's in a 3-night-long series of benefit concerts that will provide funds for medical assistance to the music community. Billed as a Music Festival and Art Auction in Memory of Chris Gaffney, the event is the culmination of hard ...
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As a teenager Dave Alvin frequented legendary L.A. blues clubs like the Ashgrove, where he soaked up the licks and the spirit of T-Bone Walker and Big Joe Turner. He helped to kick-start the American roots rock scene in the early '80s with the band the Blasters and has since gone on to a career as a solo performer, songwriter, producer, and sideman that's been as well respected as it is eclecti...
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Dave Alvin, late of the Blasters and X, among many other stops in his musical journey, gives a go at a Dylan cover.
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Odds & Sods from 2008There was a lot of great new music last year -- my "most played" are herehttp://mog.com/funoka/blog/282482 -- but I just had to Mog about some things that I enjoyed that are not ending up on too many other lists this year. Alt-country Lives? At my house it does. Carrie Rodriguez' She Ain't Me and Kathleen Edwards' Asking for Flowers will stand up over time. It took awhi...
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A wonderful, nostalgic song about a time when transistor radios were our tickets to the musical world. "Plastic Silver Nine Volt Heart, click it on and let the music start..."This song was cowritten by the legendary Dave Alvin and Rod Hodges of New Orlean's great band The Iguanas. It can be found on Alvin's Ashgrove, and The Iguanas "Nine Volt Heart". Both versions are excellent, and both CD...
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--- - |- This Labor Day Weekend in Los Angeles, it will feel more like 1978 than 2008... LA's original underground, punk rock and local legends will rock Safari Sam's in a 3-night-long series of benefit concerts that will provide funds for medical assistance to the music community. Billed as a Music Festival and Art Auction in Memory of Chris Gaffney, the event is the culmination of hard ...
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| 2 Surfer Girl |
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| 3 Here in California |
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| 4 Redneck Friend |
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| 5 King of California |
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