Aha Moment: Dave Alvin & Curtis Mayfield

A generation ago, the singer-songwriter Dave Alvin founded the rootsy-rock band The Blasters with his brother Phil in Los Angeles " and they made an indelible mark on the early 1980's punk scene. "We became you know, I won't say rock stars," Alvin remembers. "We became cult heroes." But the life of a working musician, often playing to very small crowds, was trying. During a rough patch in the late '80s, Alvin found h…

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