Giant Sand News: proVISIONS
Giant Sand Magazine - news, reviews, videos, photo gallery and free mp3 playlist.
'Every girl is like a pearl/hearts strung along and then left stranded/this world is worn, all frayed and torn' Howe Gelb sings on 'Stranded Pearl,' the opening track on proVISIONS, Giant Sand's first album in nearly four years. A slow, brooding song ostensibly about a woman and a glass-eyed soldier whose relationship to each other is vague, it sets the tone for most of the country-tinged tunes that follow. An album that establishes a definite somber tone - crying in your beer is perfectly understandable in this case - it evokes isolation and restlessness as Gelb's characters head toward various...
Similar Articles:
