DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE
T Presents
DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE
with THE GUILTY ONES
September 11 @ 8:00 pm
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.
T presents
DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE
WITH THE GUILTY ONES
and special guest DEAD ROCK WEST
This is a General Admission Show.
Tickets: $30.00 Advance/$35.00 Day Of Show
Gold Circle: $45.00 Advance/$50.00 Day Of Show
Gold Circle includes early entry and preferred seating.
Gold Circle doors open 6:45PM | GA doors open 7PM | Show at 8PM
Behind blistering blues licks, TexiCali doubles as a roadtrip across Grammy winner Dave Alvin and Grammy nominee Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s beloved home states and the memories within, honoring shared musical influences, friends gone too soon and all they’ve endured along the way. These folk heroes have now evolved their unbreakable bond into a fully-fledged musical and songwriting partnership. Today we celebrate the announcement of TexiCali, a brand new studio album out June 21 via Yep Roc Records, with the aptly-titled first single “We’re Still Here.”
DEAD ROCK WEST
“They are a modern-day Gram and Emmylou singing songs that Otis and Carla would sing,” says John Doe. “Somehow Cindy and Frank connect the dots between ’70s country and ’60s soul music.” The jingle jangle of the Byrds and the lyrical economy of Buddy Holly, Merle Haggard and Lou Reed inform Frank’s writing style while Cindy loves American classics, from anonymous down home singers to the more sophisticated song styles of Smokey Robinson and vocal teams like Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. When paired with Doe and their family of collaborators, the result is positively transcendent and soul-stirring rock magic– the golden harmonies, the unbroken melodies that sound like love in action and that could only have been made in California.
Frank and Cindy’s shared love of country, rock, and soul singing and songwriting has only grown deeper through their ongoing collaborations with three California songmen: Doe (of X, the Knitters, and the John Doe Band) Dave Alvin (of the Blasters and the Guilty Men and Women) and Peter Case (formerly of the Nerves and the Plimsouls and producer/arranger of Dead Rock West’s second album, Bright Morning Stars).
“We call them the Holy Trinity,” says Cindy who sings on the road and in the studio with Doe, while Frank claims an early enounter with Case guided him toward finding his own spiritual style of secular songwriting.
“Peter’s songs embraced regular people in common circumstances, yet they were personal, heartfelt, and deeply spiritul,” says Frank.
“Each one of them hits a spot where it’s so exciting,” says Cindy. “They’re all so different but the thread that connects them is they are amazing writers, such wordsmiths, and that they came from punk rock and turned that energy into incredible artistry.” Call them mentors or big brothers, “That they’ve taken us as their own is like a dream,” says Cindy.
The dream started for Frank and Cindy on the Southern California club scene. Debuting in 2007 with the independent Honey and Salt, they followed with the aforementioned California spirituals collection, Bright Morning Stars, then received critical raves for 2015’s It’s Everly Time!, an homage to pioneering rock vocalists and songwriters, the Everly Brothers.