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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 ...
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The album includes a duet with Exene Cervenka of X and the Knitters, track number 2, "Jackson" — a cover of the 1963 song made most famous by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. In advance of the album's release, the band was touring Spain, and Phil Alvin had a near-death experience owing to an infection from an abscessed tooth.
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]
County Fair 2000 is the second solo album by the American musician Phil Alvin, released in 1994. [1] [2] It arrived eight years after his solo debut, Un "Sung Stories", and followed years Alvin devoted to mathematics work. [3] [4] Alvin supported the album by touring with a Dave Alvin-less version of the Blasters. [5]
Oct. 19—It is a return to the beginning for Testament. The band remastered its 1987 album, "The Legacy," and its 1988 album, "The New Order." It is now playing the albums on its current "Klash ...
The Blasters Collection (1990) Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (2002) 2-CD; Trouble Bound (2002) Going Home: The Blasters Live (2004) Live 1986 (2011) Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (2023) Over There (Live at the Venue, London 1982) – The Complete Concert (2024) 2-CD
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] "