Stagecoach 2012: Backstage with Dave Alvin

April 29, 2012 7 AM PT

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On his way into the Stagecoach grounds in Indio, where he was set to play Saturday afternoon, Dave Alvin recalled the last time he played the country/roots-focused event, in 2009 with the Knitters, L.A.’s rootsy offshoot of X and the Blasters.

‘It was really hot,’ Alvin recalled. ‘We were on after the Poco reunion, which was so emotional. Seeing Richie Furay and Rusty Young, and they sang [Buffalo Springfield’s] ‘Kind Woman.’’

‘And I thought, ‘We have to follow that?’’

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Poco’s Furay wrote ‘Kind Woman’ during his Buffalo Springfield tenure. Of Poco’s performance in 2009, The Times wrote that the act’s multi-part harmonies were delivered ‘precisely yet lovingly,’ which gave ‘Poco’s performance a sweetly golden tone.’’

Alvin, just back from a two-week tour of England. was pulled aside prior to his afternoon set with the latest incarnation of his ‘Guilty’ band. Now known as ‘the Guilty Ones,’ following earlier editions the Guilty Men and the Guilty Women.

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-- Randy Lewis

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Randy Lewis

Randy Lewis covered pop music for the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 2020, working in that time as a reporter, music critic and editor for the Calendar section. He has interviewed most of the members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He’s also written first-person accounts of performing the music of Shostakovich and Prokofiev on clarinet and singing Mozart’s Requiem with world-class professionals. In addition, he enjoys belting out “Wooly Bully” in dive bars with his band, the Rounders.