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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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