Giant sand

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Giant sand
Giant Sand 2006
Giant Sand 2006
General information
origin Tucson , United States
Genre (s) Alternative country , roots rock , Americana , country rock , alternative rock
founding 1980
Website howegelb.com
Current occupation
Howe Yellow (since 1980)
Anders Pedersen (from 2003)
Thøger T. Lund (from 2003)
Peter Dombernowsky (from 2003)
Nicolaj Heyman (from 2010)
Lonna Kelley (from 2012)
Maggie Björklund (from 2012)
Brian Lopez (from 2012)
Gabriel Sullivan (from 2012)
Jon Villa (from 2012)
Iris Jakobsen (from 2012)
Asger Christiansen (from 2012)

Giant Sand is an American rock band led by Howe Yellow from Tucson , Arizona . In her music she combined rock music with country and Americana .

Band history

Howe Gelb and Giant Sand at TFF Rudolstadt 2005

The band was founded in 1980 by Howe Gelb (* 1956) as Giant Sandworms and was based in Los Angeles for a long time . The members of the band changed over the years. a. Long-time band members were John Convertino (drums) and Joey Burns (bass), who later founded Calexico . Continued to play Chris Cacavas (from Green on Red ), Paula Jean Brown ( Go-Go's ) and Tom Larkins (later Jonathan Richman ) in the band. Guest artists included Victoria Williams , Neko Case , Juliana Hatfield , PJ Harvey , John Parish, Vic Chesnutt , Steve Wynn , Vicki Peterson , Rainer Ptacek and almost all members of the band Poi Dog Pondering . Yellow and Brown's daughter, Indiosa Patsy Jean, can also be heard regularly on records.

Yellow releases solo albums at regular intervals. Other side projects are The Band of Blacky Ranchette , OP8 (in collaboration with Lisa Germano ). On the albums of the Band of Blacky Ranchette , guests u. a. Lucinda Williams , Kurt Wagner (from Lambchop ) and Cat Power .

The rock opera Tucson , released in 2012 under the name Giant Giant Sand , was the first album by the band to hit the charts in the “ Independent - Newcomer ” category .

In 2016, Gelb temporarily announced Giant Sand's farewell tour. In 2018 he re-recorded the 1985 debut album as Returns to Valley of Rain with the original line-up of the band and continued to play concerts with Giant Sand.

Discography

Giant sand

  • Valley of Rain (1985)
  • Ballad of a Thin Line Man (1986)
  • Storm (1987)
  • The Love Songs (1988)
  • Giant Sandwich (1989)
  • Giant Songs: One (1989)
  • Long Stem Rant (1989)
  • Swerve (1990)
  • Ramp (1991)
  • Center of the Universe (1992)
  • Purge and Slouch (1993)
  • Power outage (1993)
  • Giant Songs: Two (1994)
  • Glum (1994)
  • Goods And Services (1995)
  • Backyard Barbecue Broadcast (1996)
  • Ballad Of A Thin Line Man + Valley Of Rain (1996, re-release)
  • Volume 1: Official Bootleg Series - Build Your Own Night It's Easy (1997)
  • Chore of Enchantment (2000)
  • Volume 2: Official Bootleg Series - The Rock Opera Years (2000)
  • Volume 3: Official Bootleg Series - Unsungglum (2001)
  • Selections circa 1990–2000 (2001)
  • Cover Magazine (2002)
  • Infiltration of Dreams (2002)
  • Volume 4: Official Bootleg Series - Infiltration Of Dreams (2003)
  • Volume 5: Official Bootleg Series - Too Many Spare Parts ... (2003)
  • ... Is All Over ... The Map (2004)
  • Commissions (2008)
  • Provisional Supplement (2008)
  • Blurry Blue Mountain (2010)
  • Black out (2012; vinyl pressing of the album Stromausfall )
  • Tucson (2012) as Giant Giant Sand
  • Heartbreak Pass (2015)
  • Returns to Valley of Rain (2018)

Howe yellow

  • Dreaded Brown Recluse (1991)
  • Hisser (1998)
  • (Upside) Down Home (1998)
  • Down Home 2000 (2000)
  • Confluence (2001)
  • Lull (some piano) (2001)
  • The Listener (2003)
  • Down Home 2002 (2003)
  • Ogle Some Piano (2004)
  • The Listener's Coffee Companion (2004)
  • Down Home 2004 (2004)
  • Ballad Of The Tucson 2 (2006)
  • 'Sno Angel Like You (2006)
  • Down Home 2007 (2007)
  • Spun Some Piano (2008)
  • Sno Angel Winging It (Live) (2009)
  • Melted Wires (2010)
  • Alegrías (2011) with A Band Of Gypsies
  • Snarl Some Piano (2011)
  • Dust Bowl (2013)
  • The Coincidentalist (2013)
  • Future Standards (2016)

The Band of Blacky Ranchette

  • The Band of Blacky Ranchette (1985)
  • Heartland (1986)
  • Sage Advice (1990)
  • Still Lookin 'Good to Me (2003)

Arizona Amp And Alternator

  • st (2005)

OP8

  • Slush (1997)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tip-berlin.de (accessed on August 22, 2012)
  2. ↑ musicline.de ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed August 22, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  3. ↑ Dirk Wagner: Back to Los on Süddeutsche.de (accessed December 9, 2018)

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