Like Bruce Springsteen, Tom Russell and a bevy of other road-seasoned artists, Dave Alvin has been writing and singing about the problems of working-class people for most of his long, distinguished and somewhat overlooked career. And like many graying musicians with a penchant for self-examination, that decades-long journey has led him full-circle, back to the beginning.
For the California-based Alvin, who made his name as the guitarist and main songwriter in the California rockabilly band The Blasters in the 1970s and '80s and later as a...
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