Interstate City Explained

Interstate City
Type:	live
Artist:	Dave Alvin
Cover:	InterstateCityDaveAlvin.jpg
Released:	July 1996
Recorded:	Continental Club, Austin, Texas
Genre:	Folk rock, country rock
Length:	1:11:12
Label:	Hightone
Producer:	Dave Alvin
Prev Title:	King of California
Prev Year:	1994
Next Title:	Blackjack David
Next Year:	1998

Interstate City is a live album by American artist Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men, released in 1996. It was the group's first release and one of two the group released with Hightone records.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Thom Owens wrote of the album "Most of the newer numbers are on par with his finest material and they are delivered with an intoxicating rush. Interstate City is one of the rare live albums that actually improves on the original recordings."

Track listing

All songs by Dave Alvin unless otherwise noted.

1. "So Long Baby, Goodbye" – 3:26
2. "Out in California" (Dave Alvin, Tom Russell) – 4:26
3. "Interstate City" – 6:21
4. "Look Out (It Must Be Love)/Intro to Mister Lee" – 4:21
5. "Mister Lee" (Alvin, Fontaine Brown) – 5:04
6. "Thirty Dollar Room" (Alvin, David Amy) – 6:29
7. "Dry River" – 4:10
8. "Museum of Heart" – 4:34
9. "Waiting for the Hard Times to Go" (Jim Ringer) – 3:37
10. "Jubilee Train/Do Re Mi/Promised Land" – 9:15
11. "Long White Cadillac" – 7:43
12. "The New Florence Avenue Lullaby" – 2:28
13. "Romeo's Escape" – 8:58

Personnel

• Dave Alvin – vocals, guitar
• Rick Solem – piano, background vocals
• Gregory Boaz – bass
• Bobby Lloyd Hicks – drums, percussion, background vocals
• Donald Lindley – drums, percussion, background vocals
• Greg Leisz – guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin
• Katy Moffatt – vocals
• Ted Roddy – harmonica

Production notes

• James Tuttle – engineer, mixing
• Phil Crumrine – assistant engineer
• Chris Bellman – mastering
• Lou Beach – design
• Issa Sharp – photography
• Brenda Burns Boaz – photography