One in five of the roots rock revisionary Howe Gelb’s incessant releases sees his untrammeled talent torrent coagulate fully coherently. Album fifty. It’s that time again. Doubling his blurred collective Giant Sand to twelve with pedal steel and mariachi brass, hence the elongated name, Gelb’s country rock opera assimilates every style he’s dabbled with, from cocktail crooning to ambient tex-mex grunge. The impressionistic lyrics are uncommonly honed, the immersive widescreen Americana harnessed to the story of one man’s attempt to thwart fate. Hallucinatory production notes, imagining Tucson as a dreamlike Lynch-Lurman musical, fix it in the mind like a cactus spine.
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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