Giant Sand - Glum (25th Anniversary Edition) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Remastered edition of Giant Sand's 1991 album 'Ramp' with extra tracks featuring the Mad Dog sessions from earlier that same year. 'Convertino's brush-work and Burns' upright bass provide the perfect foundation for Gelb's parched voice and chaotic guitar, and guests include Rainer, Victoria Williams and country veteran Pappy Allen. Featuring piano lounge music for an off-world colony interrupted by an onslaught of guitar when needed, it's light and dark and the better for it, a musical journey on a road less travelled. With Gelb's lyrical invention to the fore 'His thoughts unfold in long, rolling sentences that don't always follow conventional rules of grammar or syntax.' The Quietus // The Tucson sound at it very best. Album Tracks 1. Warm Storm 2. Romance of Falling 3. Wonder 4. Welcome to My World 5. Anti-Shadow 6. Neon Filler 7. Jazzer Snipe 8. Z.Z. Quicker Foot 9. Seldom Matters 10. Resolver 11. Nowhere 12. Always Horses Coming 13. Patsy's Blues... // Live at Mad Dog Studios - 30th January 1991 14. Back to the Black and Grey 15. Trickle Down System 16. Bible Black, Book II 17. Still Too Far 18. Romance of Falling 19. Can't Find Love 20. Shadow to You

Valley of Rain was Giant Sand's debut album recorded in 1983, and released in 1985. It included Howe Gelb on vocals, guitar and Winston Watson on drums for most of it, Tommy Larkins on drums for some of it and Scott Garber on fretless bass for all of it. At the time of the recording, Howe was unacquainted with the possibilities of tube (valve) amps and had recorded most of the album with a Roland JC120 at the miraculous 8 track facilities of The Control Center in Korea Town, Los Angeles by Ricky InchMixInch Novak. This impromptu recording had occurred because the band refused to cancel their first Los Angeles live gig, at Madame Wong's, when the band (Giant Sandworms) had broken up days before in Tucson. Instead, Howe headed out anyway with Scott, the newest member who'd only been in the band for about a year, after band mainstays Billy Sed and Dave Seger reasonably decided 'enough was enough' following a rough and tenuous year spent in the lower east side of NYC attempting to further the band circa 1981/82. Tucsonan Winston Watson was already living in Los Angeles and was brave/kind enough to jump in for the live date with no rehearsal. The result was so sparked with adrenalin, that the trio set up an impromptu studio session the next day to attempt to capture the sonic thrust on tape. The total cost of the day and a half recording was $400 including one 1Inch reel of 30 minute tape. When Enigma Records offered to the album they requested another 15 minutes of music to make it a full LP. Ron Goudie was then called in to oversee the extra recordings. It was then when Howe borrowed an amp that had been stored at the studio did he discover the bolster of a tube amp and his world changed. The amp was a slightly modified Fender Twin Reverb owned by Robbie Krieger of The Doors. 30 some years later, now that the band had been put to sleep indefinitely, those very first so

2002's 'Cover Magazine' is a much less cryptic, typically literal title for one of Giant Sand's lighter alternative offerings. A collection of covers which says as much about Howe Gelb's personal musical taste as it does the friends he has made on his musical journey. Album Tracks 1. El Paso/Out on the Weekend 2. Johnny Hit and Run Pauline 3. Iron Man 4. Human/Lovely Head 5. The Beat Goes on 6. Plants and Rags 7. Wayfaring Stranger/Fly Me to the Moon 8. Red Right Hand 9. King of the Road 10. I'm Leaving Now 11. Blue Marble Girl 12. The Inner Flame 13. The Beat Goes on [Alternative] 14. Summertime 15. The Pilgrim (Chapter 33)