- Album list
- Singer Intro
Giant Sand (also currently recording as Giant Giant Sand) is an American band from Tucson, Arizona. Its most constant member is singer-songwriter Howe Gelb.
Members have included keyboardist Chris Cacavas (of Green on Red), bassist Paula Jean Brown (who was briefly a member of The Go-Go's and was married to Gelb at the time), Mark Walton (of The Dream Syndicate and Continental Drifters), drummer Tom Larkins (later to become a Jonathan Richman sideman). and Iain Shedden, drummer with Australian band The Saints. For a long while the band's rhythm section consisted of John Convertino and Joey Burns (of Calexico fame). In the early 2000s Howe Gelb reinvented the band again - this time with players from Denmark.
Guest artists over the last 3 decades have included Victoria Williams, Neko Case, Juliana Hatfield, PJ Harvey, Vic Chesnutt, Steve Wynn, Vicki Peterson, Rainer Ptacek, M. Ward, Isobel Campbell, nearly all members of the band Poi Dog Pondering, and Indiosa Patsy Jean (Gelb and Brown's daughter).
Discography
Giant Sand
1985: Valley of Rain (Enigma Records)
1986: Ballad of a Thin Line Man (Zippo)
1987: Storm (Demon)
1988: The Love Songs (Homestead)
1989: Long Stem Rant (Homestead)
1990: Swerve (Demon)
1991: Ramp (Restless)
1992: Center of the Universe (Restless)
1994 Stromausfall (Return to Sender)
1993: Purge & Slouch (Brake Out)
1994: Glum (Imago)
1995: Goods and Services (Brake Out)
1995: Backyard Barbecue Broadcast (Koch)
1997: Official Bootleg Series Volume 1: Build Your Own Night It's Easy (¡Epiphany!)
1999: Chore of Enchantment (Loose)
2000: Official Bootleg Series Volume 2: The Rock Opera Years (OW OM Finished Recorded Products)
2001: Official Bootleg Series Volume 3: Unsungglum (OW OM Finished Recorded Products)
2001: Selections Circa 1990-2000 (V2 Records Benelux)
2002: Cover Magazine (Thrill Jockey)
2002: Infiltration of Dreams (Mucchio Extra)
2003: Official Bootleg Series Volume 4: Too Many Spare Parts in the Yard Too Close at Hand (OW OM Recorded Products)
2004: Is All Over the Map (Thrill Jockey)
2008: *proVISIONS* (Thrill Jockey)
2008: Provisional Supplement (OW OM Recorded Products)
2010: Blurry Blue Mountain (Fire)
2015: Heartbreak Pass (New West)
Giant Giant Sand
2012: Tucson; a Country Rock Opera (Fire)
Melted Wires
2010 Melted Wires (self-released)
Howe Gelb
2011: Snarl Some Piano (Scatterland)
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