King of California | ||||
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Released | 1994 | |||
Genre | Folk rock, country rock | |||
Length | 54:49 | |||
Label | Hightone | |||
Producer | Greg Leisz | |||
Dave Alvin chronology | ||||
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King of California is an album by the American musician Dave Alvin, released in 1994.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Robert Christgau | A– [2] |
AllMusic critic Mark Deming wrote: "While King of California was often lumped in with the then-fashionable unplugged craze, in retrospect it was the album where Dave Alvin's abilities as a performer began to catch up with his gifts as a songwriter, pointing the way for his later albums Blackjack David and Public Domain." [1]
All songs by Dave Alvin unless otherwise noted.
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