Giant Sand - Cover Magazine

NEW VINYL LP ON FIRE FIDELITY 2012.

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Cover Magazine is like a primer on long-running Arizona institution Giant Sand: a mix of highbrow and lowbrow influences rendered with exquisite musicianship, all saturated by the hushed, plainspoken vocals of Howe Gelb. Over the years, this revolving cast of characters has been compared to everyone from Bob Dylan to Neil Young (with or without Crazy Horse), but the strongest resemblance on this live outing is to the Band (Gelb even sounds a bit like Robbie Robertson) -- assuming the Band would have covered songs like "Iron Man" and "The Beat Goes On" (twice). Gelb and company aren't making fun of the material, however; the Sabbath standard is performed in a jazzy manner with piano, conga drums, and mournful trumpet, and there's nothing particularly jokey about it. If anything, the unusual rendition brings out the pathos in the lyrics.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Sand

Tracklist.

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