Dave Alvin

It's been six years since Alvin's last album of original material, and from the sound of
Ashgrove, they've been long and tough ones. Reaching back for a past that doesn't exist,
dying parents, dead-end lives, the anchorlessness of life on the road, the stop-the-clock
fear of aging -- those themes are all over this album, delivered by Alvin's
twixt-a-husk-'n'-a-croak voice. In places, it sounds rather like a rootsier Bruce S... More >