Tag Archives: California Songwriters

Dave Alvin

Here’s another great Californian, songwriter and guitarist.  Here is with “Downey Girl”, backed by the Guilty Women. The Downey girl of the title, by the way, is Karen Carpenter.

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Tom Russell

I’ll salute California this weekend.  Here is a great Californian songwriter, Tom Russell, with one of the great tracks off his recent Blood and Candle Smoke.  This is “East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam”.

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