"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..." --Mark Deming
TexiCali moves like two weathered souls standing on opposite ends of a desert and singing toward each other until their echoes collide. Alvin’s baritone and Gilmore’s high warble trade lines like old friends telling ghost stories.
Two iconic pop hits first shared by Chappell Roan in live performances, “The Subway” and “The Giver” both display her soaring vocals and witty songwriting.