Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women
Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women
Release Date: May 26, 2009
Genre(s): Alternative, Country
Record label: Yep Roc
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Album Review: Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women by Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women
Excellent, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
In addition to his prodigious skills as a songwriter, arranger, and guitarist, Alvin has a knack for picking worthy associates. Lee Allen, John Doe, David Hidalgo, Greg Leisz—Alvin’s shared the stage or studio with all of them. It’s no surprise, then, that one of the highlights of his new release is the company Alvin’s keeping. Released in combination with a tribute album honoring his late friend/band-mate Chris Gaffney, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women is, in some sense, another kind of tribute to Gaffney.
Opinion: Mediocre
Getting closer to his sensitive side, L.A. roots godfather Dave Alvin chose for this May release to record with an all-female band, including Austinites Cindy Cashdollar, Sarah Brown, and Lisa Pankratz, on material featuring Ana Egge's "River Under the Road" and Amy Farris' "Anyway." All that talent still adds up to a disappointment filled with gauzy arrangements and magnified by Alvin's rare lackluster vocals. (Saturday, April 18, 6:45pm, Hill Country Stage.) .
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