Poet philosopher Howe Gelb is a natural storyteller. And it turns out the Tucson-based songwriter doesn’t even need his signature voice—husky and low, a rumbling, phantasmagoric presence fronting his genre-crossing band Giant Sand for more than 40 years—to get his tall tales across. On his latest, Weathering Some Piano, Gelb’s voice does make a few brief but welcome appearances, but the focus is on his piano playing—solitary, unadorned, self-recorded at his home in Tucson “during random moments of weathering.”
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Robyn Hitchcock/Howe Gelb of Giant Sand/Steve Wynn of the Dream Syndicate :: Transmissions
One from the Transmissions vaults: a roundtable conversation with three indie rock lifers: Robyn Hitchcock, Howe Gelb (Giant Sand), and Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate). The talk was recorded in August 2018 at Hotel Congress in Tucson, Arizona.
Howe Gelb :: Surrounded By Sound And Washed In Color
Desert crooner Howe Gelb wanders into a sleepy Pennsylvania Jazz bar, looking to retrace his youthful steps before the great flood of ’72. A short musical interlude.
Transmissions Podcast :: Matt Sullivan of Light in the Attic/In Conversation: Howe Gelb, Steve Wynn, and Robyn Hitchcock
We’re back. The weather is beginning to turn. We’re almost there. Welcome to the September edition of the Transmissions podcast. On this episode, we sit down with three legends of independent […]
Are Your Songs Rabbits? :: Wooden Wand Interviews Howe Gelb
Our Longshots series returns with two of the more prolific voices working in music today — Wooden Wand’s James Jackson Toth and Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb; both of whom just saw […]
Howe Gelb/Scout Niblett :: I Want Candy/Medley
If you follow blogs, chances are you have seen, Portland, OR resident, Scout Niblett’s name popping up here and there during the past month (or, say, in advertisements — like the one […]