Giant Sand: Belly Full of Fire

By: Dennis Cook Giant Sand The best musicians find lines of connection between music one might never consider compatible bedfellows. In Giant Sand one hears the grappling of Skip James with Television, Hendrix with Nick Drake, the apparent gulf between bombast and hushed delicacy bridged with architectural finesse. There is an intrinsic logic to Giant Sand that is felt more than understood but it lies within each segment of Howe Gelb's ever-growing songbook. While it's tough to call any...

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