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  2. The Blasters - Wikipedia

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    The Blasters have a devoted fan base and have received largely positive critical reviews, but have earned only limited mainstream success. Critic Mark Deming wrote of them, "the Blasters displayed a wide-ranging musical style [and] were a supremely tight and tactful band with enough fire, smarts, and passion for two or three groups." [21]

  3. Dark Night (song) - Wikipedia

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    Dark Night is a song by The Blasters.It was first featured on the 1985 album Hard Line.The earliest offerings of the song in popular culture can be found in the 1985 episode "Whatever Works" in season 2 of the TV crime drama Miami Vice.

  4. 4-11-44 (album) - Wikipedia

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    The Blasters tried recording 4-11-44 twice, as a live album, but issues with record labels prevented a release. [6] They were without Dave Alvin; the lineup that recorded 4-11-44 had been playing together for a decade. [7] Phil Alvin and bass player John Bazz were the only founding members to participate in the recording sessions. [8] "

  5. The Blasters (album) - Wikipedia

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    The Blasters was critically well received. Reviewing the album in 1982 for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau said that Phil Alvin has "easily the most expressive vocal style in all of nouveau rockabilly", while "Dave Alvin's originals introduce a major songwriter, one with John Fogerty's bead on the wound-tight good times of America's tough white underbelly, though his focus is shallower ...

  6. Phil Alvin - Wikipedia

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    Alvin grew up in Downey, California in a music-loving family where he and his younger brother Dave Alvin were exposed to blues, rockabilly, and country.Inspired and influenced by the music they grew up with, Phil and Dave formed the rock and roll band The Blasters in the late 1970s with fellow Downey residents Bill Bateman and John Bazz. [2]

  7. Non Fiction (The Blasters album) - Wikipedia

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    The album was produced by the Blasters; the band intended for it to be a concept album about "lost dreams," and a refutation of their revivalist music party image. [7] [8] "Long White Cadillac" is dedicated to Hank Williams. [9] "Tag Along" is a cover of the Rocket Morgan song. [10]

  8. Hard Line (album) - Wikipedia

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    Hard Line is the fourth album by the American roots rock band the Blasters, released in 1985. [7] [8] Dave Alvin quit the band shortly after the album's release. [9] The album peaked at No. 86 on the Billboard 200. [10] The song "Dark Night" was featured in the film From Dusk Till Dawn. [11]

  9. Border Radio - Wikipedia

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    The film features music from cowpunk bands and artists, including the Flesh Eaters, Green on Red, John Doe, the Divine Horsemen, X, and the Blasters. Cast [ edit ]