Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore announce new album: Downey to Lubbock
Worldwide release date: June 1, 2018
Available for Pre-Order NOW!
“It’s like we’ve been playing together since we were kids,” says Downey, California’s Dave Alvin of his musical partnership with Lubbock, Texas native Jimmie Dale Gilmore. Given their myriad of shared influences and the undeniable chemistry the pair exhibits on ‘Downey To Lubbock’ (June 1/Yep Roc Records), it seems hard to believe they haven’t.
Friends for over three decades, it took Alvin - the founder of seminal punk roots band The Blasters – and Gilmore, of the pioneering country-folk trio
The Flatlanders, until last year to collaborate at long last. Embarking on a spontaneous twelve-city tour, the two seasoned veterans of the road found a mutual love of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues, Texas and West Coast Country Music, traditional folk and early Rock n Roll. Their duo sets could effortlessly drift from Merle Hagard to Sam Cooke to the Youngbloods, and the pair had so much fun they began planning a record as soon as the tour wrapped.
The result is ‘Downey To Lubbock,’ a twelve-song collection that takes on a diverse range of American music spanning nearly one hundred years. Along with ten covers, Dave Alvin wrote two originals for the record: the autobiographical title track and the fantastical “Billy The Kid and Geronimo.”The latter sees Alvin and Gilmore trade verses as their folk heroes have a prescient bar room debate on morality, oppression and injustice.
You can get more information and ordering details via the official Yep Roc Records site here.
DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE TOUR DATES
May 25 - Strawberry Fest - Grass Valley, CA
June 1 - Heights Theater - Houston, TX
June 2 - Antone's - Austin, TX
June 3 - Kessler - Dallas, TX
June 7 - Word Café Live - Philadelphia, PA
June 8 - City Winery NYC - New York City, NY
June 9 - Narrows - Fall River, MA
June 13 - Rams Hear - Annapolis, MD
June 14 - Birchmere - Alexandria, DC
June 16 - Shea Theater - Turner Falls, MA
June 17 - Clearwater Fest - Cotton on Hudson, NY
June 20 - Sportsman Bar - Buffalo, NY
June 22 - Valley Dale Ballroom - Columbus, OH
June 23 - Club Café - Pittsburgh, PA
July 21 - Americana Music Fest - Telluride, CO
July 25 - Belly Up - Solana Beach, CA
July 26 - Troubadour - Los Angeles, CA
July 27 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
July 28 - Moes - Santa Cruz, CA
July 29 - Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. - Chico, CA
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