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Track Listing
1. Slander
2. Bender
3. Swamp Thing
4. Santana, Castanada and You
5. Blue Lit Rope
6. Overture (Part 1)
7. Rice Road Rumba
8. Corridor
9. Slice & Dice Blues
10. High Lonesome Curl
11. New Carjack City Blues
12. Owed Ode
13. Overture (Part 2)
14. Here on the Planet
15. Elevator Music
16. Song For the Accountants
17. Dock of the Bay
18. Tripping Moon
19. Thin Lizzy Tribute / Personality Flaws / Last Word Johnny
20. Bed of Nails
21. Dance of the Cicadas
Album Notes
Giant Sand: Howe Gelb (vocals, acoustic guitar, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, percussion, samples); Malcolm Burn (guitar, bass); Al Perry, Loren Dircks (guitar); Rainer Ptacek (dobro); Neil Harry (pedal steel); Joe (cello, acoustic bass, bass); Mark Walton, Paula Brown, Joey Burns (bass); John Convertino (drums); Sofie (background vocals).
Recorded in Tucson, Arizona in summer, 1993.
This album followed the concise and exemplary CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE. It's a wonderful sprawl of 21 songs that show Giant Sand in its every guise. There are instrumental jams that sparkle with immediacy and surprise, unfolding in first-take innocence and glee. Howe Gelb and his cohorts in Arizona can execute a Dylan-esque reverie as well as they can handle a Neil Young & Crazy Horse-like basher. Rainer Ptacek's adds tasteful dobro playing to the few tracks on which he guests. Other visitors include Al Perry, Susan Cowsill, and Vicki Peterson. Though PURGE & SLOUCH was recorded at different times and locations, it jells as one cohesive work because of Gelb's engaging and unmistakable character.
Industry Reviews
...like Neil Young or Gram Parsons, he inhabits a territory somewhere in between those two extremes, a tuneful, potent guitarist and songwriter who can inexplicably and unexpectedly veer in any direction...
Option (08/01/1994)
...With its squeaky guitars and cow-punk melodies, the group lurches into a world of its own, resulting in music with a ramshackle charm.... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (01/28/1994)
...With its squeaky guitars and cow-punk melodies, the group lurches into a world of its own, resulting in music with a ramshackle charm.... - Rating: B+Option (8/94, pp.100-101) - ...like Neil Young or Gram Parsons, he inhabits a territory somewhere in between those two extremes, a tuneful, potent guitarist and songwriter who can inexplicably and unexpectedly veer in any direction...
Entertainment Weekly (01/28/1994)
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