Subject: Dave Alvin

• Chris Gaffney, R.I.P.

  April 18, 2008

• Dutch Treat

  February 15, 1996

• Playbill

  Elvis Incarnate: Mojo Nixon

  December 30, 1999

• Hacienda Brothers

  Self-Titled

  March 24, 2005

• My Oh My

  January 13, 1994

• Doomed or Domed?

  January 20, 1994

• Big Sandy and his Boys

  September 15, 1994

• Live Shots

  October 13, 1994

• Blasters Redux

  February 9, 1995

• Doug Sahm Tribute Album Due March 24

  Vanguard Records (Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters, Kim Richey, the Watson Twins) announced today it will release Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm, a 14-song disc honoring the late musican known as Sir Doug, March 24. Artists include Delbert McClinton, Los Lobos, Alejandro Escovedo, Dave Alvin, Terry Allen, Charlie Sexton and former Afghan Whigs lead singer Greg Dulli. Sahm's two sons, Shandon and Shawn, are also featured on Keep Your Soul. Shandon, who now fronts his own heav

  January 21, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: A Tribute to Chris Gaffney

  Chris Gaffney Right on the heels of Wednesday's announcement of Vanguard's new Doug Sahm tribute album comes Yep Roc's tribute to Chris Gaffney, The Man of Somebody's Dreams. Ironically, it includes some of the same high-profile roots artists who pay tribute to Sahm: Dave Alvin, Los Lobos and Alejandro Escovedo. Gaffney was a Southern California barroom legend, the kind of player and man for whom the cliché "musician's musician" was coined.    Before he died of liver

  January 23, 2009

• Tonight: Mike Barfield and Danny Gardner at Under the Volcano

  Mike Barfield, "Lonesome Train" Mike Barfield and Danny Gardner have been around the Houston roots-rock/country scene so long they remember Club Hey Hey and Blues Burger. Back before they parted company - Barfield moving to front the Hollisters and Gardner working with Mitch Jacobs in Romeo Dogs - they teamed up in the Rounders with guitarist Eric "Eddie Lee Dale" Danheim and scorched the earth at every bar in town. I mainly remember the Rounders from the Fabulous Satellite Lounge; they opened

  February 4, 2009

• Looking for Billy Zoom

  March 27, 1997

• Rotation

  November 20, 1997

• SXSW 09 Will Be a Groover's Paradise

  A few weeks ago, Rocks Off could barely contain his enthusaism when he opened the mail - a momentous enough occasion in itself - and found an advance of Vanguard Records' Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm. He put it on as soon as he got home (his piddly office CD player is just not groovy enough to handle such a disc), and was hardly disappointed. Whether it's ex-Afghan Whig and current Gutter Twin Greg Dulli growling "You Was for Real," Dave Alvin's kinetic honky-tonker "Dynamite

  February 24, 2009

• Night & Day

  April 9, 1998

• Reason to Roam

  April 9, 1998

• Rotation

  July 23, 1998

• Tonight: The Derailers at Goode's Armadillo Palace

  Outside Asleep at the Wheel's almost 40-year run, the Derailers are one of Austin's longest-lived retro-country acts. Country bands in Texas don't attain this kind of longevity unless they can find that two-step dance pocket and fill a dance floor. True dancehall pros, the 'Railers have been doing it so long they can probably do it in their sleep. Even the departure of longtime frontman Tony Villanueva a few years back hasn't slowed the Derailers bus down. I remember how in-the-know I though

  March 20, 2009

• Top Five SXSW Performances

  Chris Gray Black Joe Lewis and a couple of HoneybearsWell, thank God that's over. SXSW 09 is history now, so before we completely block it out of our mind for another 11 months, here's Rocks Off's top five reasons it was worth going to after all. Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women: L.A. roots-rocker and all-star band honored his late best friend Chris Gaffney with roadhouse fire, Cajun zeal and honky-tonk sensitivity. Austin Music Awards: The Dicks, Alejandro Escovedo, the Fire

  March 23, 2009

• Aftermath: SXSW

  March 26, 2009

• Steve Forbert: The Place And The Time

  February 26, 2009

• Dave Alvin

  November 13, 2008

• This Just In: Dave Alvin, Darrell Scott Coming To Mucky Duck

  We've just gotten an email alert from McGonigel's Mucky Duck about two stellar shows added to the fall lineup: Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women on September 19, and Darrell Scott on November 15. Undoubtedly, both of these shows will sell out. Tickets are on sale now. Alvin has just released a new album with the Guilty Women. This is an all-female ensemble consisting of Lisa Pankratz, Cindy Cashdollar, Sarah Brown, Nina Gerber, Amy Farris, Laurie Lewis, Suzy Thompson and Christy McWilson.

  June 5, 2009

• The Hacienda Brothers mourn fallen bandmate Chris Gaffney

  July 17, 2008

• Mike Stinson

  July 10, 2008

• Tremoloco

  June 12, 2008

• The Knitters, Dead Rock West

  December 6, 2007

• Local Motion

  August 16, 2007

• Larry Cooper

  Larry Cooper performs Thursday, December 7, at Mojo Risin' Coffee House, 1600 Shepherd, 713-426-1505.

  December 7, 2006

• The Hacienda Brothers

  Saturday, September 9, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899

  September 7, 2006

• The Derailers

  Friday, June 23, at Blanco's, 3406 West Alabama, 713-439-0072

  June 22, 2006

• The Knitters

  Thursday, August 25, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

  August 25, 2005

• Playbill

  December 30, 2004

• Colorado River Blues

  For New Mexico-bred singer-songwriter Eric Hisaw, the move to Austin is just starting to pay

  January 1, 2004

• Chroniclers of History and Heartbreaks: Tom Russell, Katy Moffatt and Dave Alvin

  Saturday, April 20

  April 18, 2002

• Squeeze City

  Mark Halata hopes his Texavian strains can be heard in a town full of accordions

  June 14, 2001

• Tom Russell

  Borderland (Hightone)

  May 3, 2001

• Picking Away at History

  Singer-songwriter Tom Russell explores his past to understand his present

  November 30, 2000

• Going Public

  Dave Alvin's private loss inspires him to search for the eternal sounds

  September 21, 2000

• Girl Star, Grown Up

  June 11, 2009

• Local Motion: Top Sellers at Cactus Music, Sound Exchange, Soundwaves, Sig's Lagoon and Vinal Edge

  Cactus Music 2110 Portsmouth, 713-526-9272 www.myspace.com/cactusmv1. Ryan Bingham, Roadhouse Sun 2. Dave Matthews Band, Big Whiskey & the Groo-Grux King 3. Steve Earle, Townes 4. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest 5. Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 6. Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, Live at Madison Square Garden 7. Neil Young, Archives vol. 1 8. Crosby, Stills & Nash, Demos 9. Bob Dylan, Together Through Life 10. The Flatlanders, Hills & Valleys Sound Exchange 1836 Richmond, 713-666-5555 www.

  June 11, 2009

• Local Motion: Top Sellers at Area Record Stores

  Cactus Music 2110 Portsmouth, 713-526-9272 www.myspace.com/cactusmv1. Springfield Riots, Say When EP 2. Todd Snider, The Excitement Plan 3. Jubal Lee Young, Last Free Place in America 4. Sonic Youth, The Eternal 5. Steve Earle, Townes 6. Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 7. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest 8. Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca 9. Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women 10. Rh

  June 18, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Tremoloco Headed Back Under the Volcano

  Doug Sahm is probably up in heaven with a bottle of Big Red in his hand and a huge smile on his face and bending God's ear about Tremoloco. Lonesome, On'ry and Mean has received an early warning that Tremoloco is returning to Under the Volcano July 22, after a 13-month absence. Composed of Los Lobos vets Tony Zamora and Cougar Estrada, longtime Dave Alvin sideman Rick Shea, and three - count 'em, three - ace guitaristas in Bob Robles, Mike Tovar and Juan Chacon, this outfit brings it full-force

  June 30, 2009

• Sahm Does Sahm

  July 23, 2009

• Aftermath: Tremoloco at Under the Volcano

  Photos by Vera Mitchell  Los Angeles roots band Tremoloco brought Doug Sahm-type Mexican soul to an enthusiastic audience Wednesday night at Under the Volcano. After warming up with a brand-new song called "Old Man," the band sucked the eager crowd in with a stellar country version of Warren Zevon's "Carmelita," and it was all fun and games after that as they worked through last year's release Dulcinea. The biggest surprise of the evening was an L.A. vato-billy version of Dylan's "Highway 6

  July 23, 2009

• Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women

  September 17, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: R.I.P. Amy Farris

  ​Fiddler Amy Farris, an Austin native who played most recently with Dave Alvin's Guilty Women band, died last weekend in Los Angeles. Information is still sketchy at this point, but a press release from Yep Roc Records Wednesday stated that Farris had passed away Sept. 26 "after battling a long illness." She was 40. Austin360.com also reported Farris's passing, but noted there was a suspicion of suicide, although the cause of death had not been determined. Farris had been a legal secretary in

  October 1, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Sideman Supreme Rick Shea Hits the Mucky Duck

  Rick Shea is one of the most in-demand sidemen in the Los Angeles area. Seven years on the road with Dave Alvin certainly boosted Shea's profile outside the L.A./SoCal scene, but the Alvin gig is only one of many. Shea cut his teeth in the truck stops and roadhouses in his native San Bernardino and has played with Angeleno psychedelic country faves I See Hawks In L.A., eclectic Mexican roots band Tremoloco, honky-tonk angel Heather Myles and about anyone else who needs a guy as handy with a la

  October 2, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Mucky Duck Hits a Hot Streak In the Cool Weather

  Lonesome, Onry and Mean just noticed that venerable listening room McGonigel's Mucky Duck has a major streak of high-grade talent Nov. 12 through 17. Beginning with the Subdudes on the 12th, the Duck quickly plows through Texas legend Ray Wylie Hubbard (13th), troubadour-poet Tom Russell (14th), one of Nashville's biggest talents, Darrell Scott (15th) and George Strait hit writer/two-time Grammy winner Jim Lauderdale (17th). Since reforming a couple of years ago, the Subdudes have been packing

  November 4, 2009