King of California (album)

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King of California
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Studio album by
Released1994
Genre Folk rock, country rock
Length54:49
Label Hightone
Producer Greg Leisz
Dave Alvin chronology
Museum of Heart
(1993)
King of California
(1994)
Interstate City
(1996)

King of California is an album by the American musician Dave Alvin, released in 1994.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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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]

Track listing

All songs by Dave Alvin unless otherwise noted.

  1. "King of California" – 4:51
  2. "Barn Burning" – 4:01
  3. "Fourth of July" – 4:35
  4. "Goodbye Again" (Dave Alvin, Rosie Flores) – 3:58 (duet with Flores)
  5. "East Texas Blues" (Alex Moore) – 4:07
  6. "Every Night About This Time" – 4:24
  7. "Bus Station" – 4:04
  8. "Mother Earth" (Memphis Slim) – 3:39
  9. "Blue Wing" (Tom Russell) – 3:43
  10. "Little Honey" (Alvin, John Doe) – 5:10
  11. "(I Won't Be) Leaving" – 5:06
  12. "What Am I Worth" (Darrell Edwards, George Jones) – 3:20 (duet with Syd Straw)
  13. "Border Radio" – 3:51

Bonus tracks on 2019 reissue

  1. "Riverbed Rag" – 3:11
  2. "The Cuckoo" – 4:06 (duet with Katy Moffatt)
  3. "Kern River" (Merle Haggard) – 3:55

Personnel

Production notes

References

  1. 1 2 Deming, Mark. "King of California > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved July 13, 2015.
  2. Christgau, Robert. "Dave Alvin Reviews" . Retrieved August 7, 2014.