Cover Magazine

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Giant Sand includes: Howe Gelb (vocals, guitar, harp, piano, bass); Mike Grimes (acoustic & electric basses); John Convertino (drums, percussion). Additional personnel includes: PJ Harvey (vocals); John Rauhause (pedal steel guitar); Noah Thomas (trumpet); Ari Posner (congas). Producers include: Howe Gelb, Craig Schumacher, Harland Arelund. Engineers include: Craig Schumacher, Terje Hellem, Ostein Halvorsen. Principally recorded at Wavelab, Tucson, Arizona and Brussells Radio Studio, Brussels, Belgium. Personnel: Howe Gelb (vocals, guitar, harp, piano, sound effects); Matt Ward (vocals, piano); PJ Harvey (vocals); Nick Luca, Jim Fairchild (guitar); Jacob Valenzuela (trumpet); Michael Grimes (upright bass); John Convertino (drums, percussion); Aaron Burtch (drums); Kelly Hogan, Neko Case (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Craig Schumacher; Howe Gelb; Kevin Salem. Recording information: Howe's House (02/04/2001); Rockefeller Music Hall, Olso, Norway (02/04/2001); Studio Brussels Radio, Brussels, Belgium (02/04/2001); WaveLab Studio, Tucson, AZ (02/04/2001). Photographer: Maria Mochnacz. There's no denying that Giant Sand visionary Howe Gelb is an odd duck. Since the mid-'80s his artfully skewed desert rock has occupied a respected, shadowy place in the alt-rock pantheon. With this collection of cover tunes, Gelb lays claim to a larger legacy, encompassing a wide range of American music as filtered through post-war pop culture's funhouse mirror (not to mention the carefully crafted bending and shaping on Gelb's part). He sings the Marty Robbins cowboy classic "El Paso" in a crazed hobo's whisper, and makes the X tune "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline" sound like an acoustic Suicide number with the considerable aid of Polly Jean Harvey. A twisted take on the Sonny & Cher hit "The Beat Goes On" sounds like the sort of thing you might expect to hear from a lounge band in the depths of Hades. A dust-coated medley of the traditional tune "Wayfaring Stranger" and the Sinatra classic "Fly Me to the Moon" continue the distinctly American theme, effectively mixing outsider and high-living themes for maximum tension. One of the only non-U.S. tunes on offer is Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand," but its author is obsessed enough with Americana for an exception to be made. Take a walk through the dark underbelly of American musical history with COVER MAGAZINE, and you'll probably wind up somewhere unexpected but undeniably interesting.
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