Wild Honey Presents: Dave Alvin with Special Guest Candi Jenkins
About this Event
September brings Dave Alvin (featuring Willie Aron & Danny Cott) with Special Guest Candi Jenkins to the WH Backyard for the first time. Music Begins at 4pm Doors are 330. There are first-come, first served seated GA tickets for $35 (including fees), and $50 plus fees(Seated GA with unlimited food and non-alcoholic drinks). We are on the top the hill in Eagle Rock. Plenty of street parking on Kipling east of the house, but be prepared to walk up the hill to the house. We are super thrilled to have Dave play this intimate venue with rising star Candi Jenkins.
Dave Alvin, a Grammy Award winning songwriter, singer, producer and self described barroom guitarist, is considered by many to be one of the pivotal pioneers of Americana. A fourth generation Californian, Alvin grew up in the town of Downey and got his musical education by listening to late night border radio stations, watching his older cousins play guitar and banjo, collecting dusty, rare 78s, and sneaking underage into bars like the Ash Grove with his brother Phil to see their legendary blues heroes perform live and learn from them first hand.
Since forming the highly influential Roots Rock/R+B band The Blasters, with his brother in 1979, and through his long, critically acclaimed solo career after he left the group in1986, Dave Alvin has mixed his varied musical and literary influences into his own unique, updated version of traditional American music, with highlights including songs like “Fourth of July”, “Long White Cadillac”, “King of California”, “Harlan County Line” and “Marie Marie”. Combining blues, folk, rockabilly, Bakersfield country, surf and garage rock and roll with lyrical inspiration from writers like Raymond Chandler and John Steinbeck, Alvin says his songs are “like California...a big, messy, melting pot”. Alvin has recorded with such diverse artists as Bobby Rush, Tom Waits, John Mellencamp, Little Milton, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Dick Dale, Carolyn Wonderland, X and The Knitters, while his songs have been recorded by performers like Los Lobos, Dwight Yoakam, James McMurtry, Buckwheat Zydeco, Joe Ely, Marshall Crenshaw, Shakin' Stevens, Tom Russell and Nanci Griffith. His music has well also been featured in various movies/TV shows including The Sopranos, Justified, Girls, Crybaby, Dusk To Dawn, The Wire and True Blood.
Special projects include Alvin reuniting with his brother Phil for two blues albums including the Grammy nominated Common Ground, a double album, From An Old Guitar, of twenty years of rare and unreleased solo tracks, four albums with his Psych/Rock/Improvisational super group, The Third Mind, and two albums with beloved Texas Flatlander Jimmie Dale Gilmore including their 2024 release TexCali.
Recent achievements include the 2022 release of his book New Highway: Selected Lyrics, Poems, Prose, Essays, Eulogies and Blues, and in 2023 he was honored with The Chris Strachwitz Legacy Award from The Arhoolie Foundation for his lifetime commitment to American Roots Music, and in 2024 he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Americana Music Association.
Dave can usually be found somewhere with his band, The Guilty Ones, performing in a barroom, or scribbling notes for his memoir in his journal while on some interstate highway headed to his next gig.
CANDI JENKINS is an up-and-coming roots artist making a name for herself with classic yet modern songwriting that blends traditional country, Appalachian bluegrass, and Americana. As Candi puts it, “I couldn’t find the type of country I wanted to hear, so I started making it myself.”
With a father from Canada and a mother from Southeastern Kentucky, Candi didn’t know exactly where her place was in the world. It wasn’t until the pandemic that she moved closer to family in Kentucky that Candi found a deeper connection to her mother’s Appalachian heritage, saying, “Appalachian music is in my blood in a way that is beyond surroundings. It is a part of me.” She explores that connection in her song “God Don’t Care.”
Candi has quickly built momentum on the road, opening for acts like Clay Street Unit and Andy Frasco, with upcoming shows alongside Benjamin Tod. She appeared at South by Southwest in 2025 and Luck Reunion in 2026 — the renowned roots gathering hosted on Willie Nelson’s ranch outside Austin that has become known for spotlighting emerging Americana and country artists.
Currently, Candi is recording her debut album with Andrija Tokic at The Bomb Shelter. New music from the record is set to release this summer.
With a growing social media presence, prolific songwriting, and magnetic live performances, Candi Jenkins is steadily building a loyal fanbase and emerging as a fresh voice in modern roots music.
Where is it happening?
USD 35.00 to USD 50.00
