Ballad of a Thin Line Man

by Giant Sand

Ballad of a Thin Line Man cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1986
  • Label: Zippo
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:48
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Winston Watson, Tom Larkins, Scott Garber, Howe Gelb, Eric Westfall, Hans Christian, Iain Shedden, Keith Evans, Paula J. Brown, Sue Evans, Falling James

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Howe Gelb's prolific collective delivers a remarkably ragged and heavily distorted interpretation of Americana on their sophomore release. The desert-scorched production perfectly encapsulates their transition from kinetic cowpunk into a more sprawling, psychedelic, and deeply sarcastic alternative rock aesthetic.

Genres

Descriptors: alienation, folk, acoustic, desert, melodic, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. Thin Line Man (7:33)
  2. All Along the Watchtower (4:22)
  3. Graveyard (2:09)
  4. Body of Water (3:32)
  5. Last Legs (3:41)
  6. You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory (3:16)
  7. A Hard Man to Get to Know (6:07)
  8. Who Am I? (2:00)
  9. The Chill Outside (3:55)
  10. Desperate Man (5:42)
  11. Reptillian - Bonus Track (3:27)

Credits

More from Giant Sand: full discography