Next month Fire Records is releasing Little Sand Box, a sprawling eight-CD box set collecting the solo output of Giant Sand visionary Howe Gelb—six commercially issued albums, a live effort, and a previously unissued disc of piano pieces. Both on his own and with Giant Sand, Gelb has always been a little erratic, but that's partly due to an unfettered adventurousness and desire to avoid repeating himself.…
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