When the single "Double Barrel" came out of Jamaica in 1971 -- complete with loose as a goose production, a maddeningly simple piano riff, and repeated manic interjections of "work, work" -- it shot straight to the top of the U.K. charts, and came within a whisker of the Top Twenty in the United States. Sounding like an unhinged version of Booker T. & the MG's playing at a frat party, "Double Barrel" was just one of those records that made listeners smile, even if it also drove those same listener...   [ read more ]

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Life put Dave Alvin though some pretty serious changes in 2008 when his close friend, bandmate, and frequent collaborator Chris Gaffney succumbed to liver cancer in the spring. Alvin responded by making a change of his own -- for a show at San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in the fall of 2008, Alvin wanted to try something new and asked Cindy Cashdollar, a gifted slide guitarist and good friend, to put together an acoustic band to back him for the show. Cashdollar assembled a killer all-fe...   [ read more ]

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