For Dave Alvin, playing keeps memories alive: Touring helps the singer to cope
www.TMCnet.com   02/20/2010
When roots music singer/songwriter Dave Alvin was just a boy, he and his brother, Phil, prowled the blues clubs near their home in Los Angeles County, Calif. "I don't know why we got into these bars or why we were tolerated, but we were," Dave Alvin, 54,