Howe Gelb is enjoying an encounter with the mainstream.
Transplanting the Scottish songwriter KT Tunstall to his native Tucson, he produced her acclaimed new album with a smorgasbord of avant-country collaborators. But here’s Gelb all but alone again, on piano, banjo, guitar and palm slap percussion, crooning fourteen fresh fragments as-live at home.
Thirty years back his Giant Sand band offered rock product.
But decades of diligence mean Gelb’s verbally vivid country-blues vignettes now sound like momentary musical dust motes drifting unselfconsciously past the microphone.
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