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Dave Alvin and the Guilty Ones with Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds

Describing his own music, Dave Alvin says:" "There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both!

Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter and self-described "barroom guitarist," Dave Alvin is widely considered to be one of the pivotal founders of the current Americana music scene.

Since forming the highly influential roots rock/R+B band The Blasters, with his brother Phil in 1979, and throughout his long and critically acclaimed solo career, Dave Alvin has mixed his varied musical and literary influences into his own unique, updated version of traditional American music. Combining elements of blues, folk, R+B, rockabilly, Bakersfield country and garage rock and roll with lyrical inspiration from local writers and poets like Raymond Chandler, Gerald Locklin and Charles Bukowski, Alvin says that his songs are "just like California.
A big, messy melting pot."

Alvin's songs have been recorded by a who's who of contemporary roots artists from Los Lobos, Little Milton, Robert Earl Keen, Marshal Crenshaw and Joe Ely to Dwight Yoakam, James McMurtry, Buckwheat Zydeco, Alejandro Escovedo and X. His songs have also been featured in many movies and television shows including Justified, The Sopranos, True Blood, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Crybaby, Miss Congeniality and From Dusk To Dawn.

OPENER: Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds