Dave Alvin didn’t set out to write an Independence Day song when he started recounting a day in his life on paper 40 some years ago. He wasn’t even writing a song. But, years after he took out the pen ...

[Editor's Note: On the most recent episode of Weekend Edition Saturday, Jenny Brundin tells the story of writer and artist Everett Ruess, who went missing 75 years ago. Here's a look at Dave Alvin's ...

Relpha Castillo offers hope to people through her music and her story. Her bilingual ministry, La Mujer Samaritana, or The Samaritan Woman, began 14 years ago when she saw a television program about ...

From the moment you press play on Alvin Garrett’s latest single, “You Give Me Life,” it’s clear: this is not just music — it’s medicine for the heart. We recently caught up with the Grammy-nominated ...

Whenever Dave Alvin shared a poetry reading stage with his old teacher, Gerald Locklin would tell the audience that, were Alvin not such a gifted songwriter and musician, he would have made a fine ...

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It was hard to imagine a more unlikely scenario than the one that played out at the end of Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s duo show Thursday at the Troubadour, a hometown stop — for Alvin anyway ...