"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.