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Phil Alvin (born March 6, 1953 in Downey, California) is an American singer and guitarist. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Downey is a city located in southeast Los Angeles County California, United States, 21 km (13 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A guitarist is a Musician who plays the Guitar. Guitarists may perform solo pieces or play with ensembles and bands of a wide variety of genres He is known primarily as the frontman of the roots-rock band The Blasters

Alvin grew up in Downey, California in a music-loving family where he and his younger brother Dave were exposed to blues,rockabilly, and country. The lead vocalist (or lead singer) is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song Roots rock is a term recently used to describe "a style of rock music that draws material from various American musical traditions including country, Blues, and For others with this name see Blasters. The Blasters are a Rock and roll music group formed in 1979 in Downey California Dave Alvin (born November 11, 1955, in Downey California) is a Guitarist, singer and Songwriter. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of Rock and roll music and emerged in the early 1950s Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. Inspired and influenced by the music they grew up with, Phil and Dave formed the rock and roll band The Blasters in the late 1970s with fellow Downey residents Bill Bateman and John Bazz. Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African The group released five albums between 1980 and 1985. While never achieving mass market success in commercial terms, their recordings and concerts drew critical respect and a cult following across the United States and Europe . The mass market is a general business term describing the largest group of consumers for a specified industry product Record chart are a method of ranking Music according to Popularity during a given period of time A cult following is a group of fans devoted to a specific area of Pop culture. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

In 1986, after The Blasters had disbanded, Alvin released a solo album, Un "Sung" Stories and returned to graduate school to pursue a master's degree in mathematics and artificial intelligence. A graduate school or ("grad school" is a school that awards advanced degrees such as doctoral degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and He eventually earned his Ph.D. from UCLA. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United

In the late 1980s he reconvened The Blasters, albeit without Dave Alvin (who chose instead to focus on a solo career). In 1994, he released a second solo album, County Fair 2000. In 2005, under Alvin's leadership, the revised configuration of The Blasters released a much anticipated studio album, 4-11-44, after more than a decade of touring.


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Blasters discography

Blasters videography

Phil Alvin discography

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