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Premiere: Dave Alvin, Jimmie Dale Gilmore team on 'Billy the Kid and Geronimo'

Two Americana music veterans whose paths have crossed for nearly half a century - even before they knew each other - are teaming up for their first recording as a duo, a project that brings Southern California native Dave Alvin together with esteemed West Texas singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore.

The pair recently joined forces to record the forthcoming album "Downey to Lubbock," the title referring to their hometowns. The Times is premiering one of the new collection's original songs, "Billy the Kid and Geronimo," about an imagined meeting between the two 19th century outlaws whose lives became

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