‘TexiCali’ is the a brand new studio album from Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and it is out June 21st via Yep Roc Records. In advance we can point you towards the aptly-titled first single “We’re Still Here.” It’s got some great lines, put perhaps the best series is: “The music business man with the music business smile / said the songs I write were old and out of style / But I’ve been bopping these blues for over forty years / Hell, I don’t know where he is now but we’re still here.” Here at the home of the uncool and permanently out of style we can surely relate to that.
Another spectacular offering from Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Dave Alvin! I’ve followed Jimmie Dale and the Flatlanders since the late 1990’s. I got introduced to Dave later, as he and Jimmie Dale began to create together. What amazing music and men! I love lots on this album, yet my fav is Josh White’s ‘Down the 285’. It’s such a ‘here and now’ song – easy to imagine being behind the wheel on that drive. True or not, I heard when Jimmie introduced that song to Dave he said “nobody but you could get away with singing about ‘bunnies’! haha