Howe Gelb

Howe Gelb performing in 2007
Background information
Birth name Howard Gelb
Born 1956
Origin Tucson, Arizona, United States
Genres Indie rock, Americana, alt.country, roots rock, indie folk, folk-rock, lo-fi
Occupations Singer-songwriter, musician, record producer
Instruments Vocals, guitar, piano
Labels Ow Om
Associated acts Giant Sand
OP8
The Band of Blacky Ranchette
Arizona Amp and Alternator
Website howegelb.com

Howe Gelb is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer based in Tucson, Arizona.

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Projects [link]

Gelb's approach to music is collaborative and he has recorded with a number of side projects. In a 2004 interview with Gelb, The Guardian wrote "Gelb's way of dealing with it was to treat Giant Sand (not to be confused with his 1970s electro-rock band Giant Sandworms) as a loose, uncompetitive, mutually supportive musical collective, a place for friends to hang out and play. 'I just liked the idea of having this kind of removed world, this brotherhood—the idea of a band being something more than a front person or dealing with the throes of fame.'"[1] In a 2006 interview, Gelb said "Sno Angel is now the name of this project. Like you had Arizona Amp, OP8 and all those other ones. So the way I regulate them is to keep them with their own flavour, and if this takes on a life of it's [sic] own...which this may well do...it will make time for itself. I ain't got no plans, I never even thought we'd get to tour, but it had it's [sic] own idea."[2]

Discography [link]

Giant Sand [link]

  • Valley of Rain (1985)
  • Ballad of a Thin Line Man (1986)
  • Storm (1987)
  • The Love Songs (1988)
  • Long Stem Rant (1989)
  • Swerve (1990)
  • Ramp (1991)
  • Center of the Universe (1992)
  • Stromausfall (1993)
  • Purge & Slouch (1994)
  • Glum (1994)
  • Goods and Services (1995)
  • Backyard Barbecue Broadcast (1995)
  • Build Your Own Night It's Easy (1997)
  • Chore of Enchantment (2000)
  • The Rock Opera Years (2000)
  • Unsungglum (2001)
  • Cover Magazine (2002)
  • Infiltration of Dreams (2003)
  • Too Many Spare Parts in the Yard Too Close at Hand (2003)
  • Is All Over the Map (2004)
  • Provisions (2008)
  • Provisional Supplement (2008)
  • Blurry Blue Mountain (2010)

Arizona Amp and Alternator [link]

Howe Gelb [link]

  • Dreaded Brown Recluse (1991)
  • Hisser (1998)
  • Upside Down Home (1998)
  • Upside Down Home 2000 (2000)
  • Confluence (2001)
  • Lull Some Piano (2001)
  • The Listener (2003)
  • Upside Down Home 2002 (2003)
  • Ogle Some Piano (2004)
  • The Listener's Coffee Companion (2004)
  • Upside Down Home 2004: Year of the Monkey (2004)
  • 'Sno Angel Like You (2006)
  • Fourcast: Flurries (2006)
  • Upside Down Home 2007: Return to San Pedro (2007)
  • Spun Some Piano (2008)
  • 'Sno Angel Winging It (Live album) (2009)
  • Alegrías (2010)
  • Melted Wires (2010)
  • Snarl Some Piano (2011)

The Band of Blacky Ranchette [link]

OP8 [link]

Filmography [link]

  • Drunken Bees (1996) – Giant Sand documentary by Marianne Dissard
  • Looking for a Thrill: An Anthology of Inspiration (2005) – Howe Gelb interviewed
  • High and Dry: Where the Desert Meets Rock and Roll (2006) – documentary which includes music and interviews with Giant Sand members[3]
  • This Band Has No Members (2006) – Howe Gelb solo concert film of his Japan tour in 2005

References [link]

  1. ^ Sylvie Simmons (September 2004). "True Grit". The Guardian. https://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/sep/03/popandrock. Retrieved 2009-02-20. 
  2. ^ Frankerton Stance (May 2006). "Howe Gelb". Crooked Rain. https://crookedrain.org.uk/?p=27. Retrieved 2009-02-20. 
  3. ^ https://www.upstairsfilm.com/highanddry/

External links [link]


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Podcasts:

Howe Gelb

ALBUMS

The Coincidentalist

Released 2013

Dust Bowl

Released 2013

Upside Down Home 2007 - Return to San Pedro

Released 2007

'Sno Angel Like You

Released 2006

Upside Down Home 2004 - Year of the Monkey

Released 2004

Ogle Some Piano

Released 2004

The Listener

Released 2003

Snarl Some Piano

Released 2001

Lull Some Piano

Released 2001

Confluence

Released 2001

Hisser

Released 1998

Dreaded Brown Recluse

Released 1991

Spun Some Piano

Down Home 2002

Down Home 2000

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PLAYLIST TIME:

That's How Things Get Done

by: Howe Gelb

(by Rainer Ptacek)
Days turn into afternoons
Afternoons turn into weeks
Pretty soon another year is gone
Still you ain’t got yourself no peace
What’s the use of sitting around waiting
Anticipating your whole life away
Waiting for you ship to come
Come on that sunny day
Put your mind to it
see yourself through it
First step is the hardest
But you got to get yourself started
Ain’t no way for a garden to grow
You got to water, got to work with the hoe
Ain’t no way for yourself to get fed
You don’t get up and get out of bed
Wash your face, comb your hair
Get on straight and get out there
{CHORUS} That’s how things get
That’s how things get
That’s how they get done
Open up your mind
Put your body in motion
Go ahead and make yourself a clean sweep
You ain’t a bear, you don’t need that much sleep
{CHORUS}
The world is sick, It’s an epidemic
Sometimes what I think we need
Is one good swift kick
Kick




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