{"id":14248,"date":"2012-12-21T17:05:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T01:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14248"},"modified":"2012-12-21T17:10:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T01:10:48","slug":"tell-em-howe-listen-to-giant-giant-sands-not-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-12\/tell-em-howe-listen-to-giant-giant-sands-not-the-end-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell ‘Em Howe: Listen to Giant Giant Sand’s “Not the End of the World”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mayan, shmayan<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Check out (and download) below Giant Giant Sand<\/strong> and the gifted Howe Gelb’s<\/strong> tangential take on this end-of-the-world<\/strong> nonsense in their song, Not The End of The World<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The piano-based track is an alternate take (featuring both Gelb and Lonna Kelley) from the band’s great recent album Tucson<\/strong><\/em> (Deluxe Edition), which Edition includes 27 (!) songs\u00a0 including different versions of eight songs from the album.\u00a0 One of the biggest and best surprises of the concert year was the phenomenal set put on by Gelb and Giant Giant Sand at this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival<\/strong>.\u00a0 Gelb and band are masters of manifold music genres, varying from Latino sounds, to blistering rock, to piano jazz at the drop of a sombrero.\u00a0 It was a tour de force.\u00a0 Superb.\u00a0 Check out the sublime Not the End of the World<\/strong><\/em> (and listen to some of their other songs), and then go buy Tucson<\/strong> HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n