Cover Magazine
by Giant Sand
- Type: Album
- Released: 19 March 2002
- Label: Thrill Jockey
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:02:11
- Community rating: 3.34/5 from 1 rating
Artists on this release: Kevin Salem, Jacob Valenzuela, Jim Fairchild, John Convertino, Howe Gelb, Jon Rauhouse, Aaron Burtch
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A Giant Sand album made entirely of cover versions, with Howe Gelb recasting songs by other writers in the band's loose desert rock idiom. The arrangements stay skeletal, letting Gelb's baritone and the band's drift define the record.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, storytelling, ballad, traditional, personal
Tracklist
- El Paso / Out on the Weekend (6:49)
- Johnny Hit and Run Pauline (3:07)
- Iron Man (4:33)
- Human / Lovely Head (5:07)
- The Beat Goes On (6:06)
- Plants and Rags (3:05)
- Wayfaring Stranger / Fly Me to the Moon (4:48)
- Red Right Hand (4:40)
- King of the Road (2:55)
- I'm Leaving Now (2:06)
- Blue Marble Girl (live) (9:27)
- The Inner Flame (live) (6:37)
- The Beat Goes On (live) (2:46)
Credits
- John Convertino - drums, drums, percussion
- PJ Harvey - vocals [2nd vocal], written-by
- Mike Grimes - double bass [upright bass]
- Aaron Graham - steel guitar [steel string guitar]
- M. Ward - vocals [2nd vocal], piano
- Joey Burns - double bass [upright bass], electric bass
- Tania Bowers - written-by [cd player song capture: "universe city" written + played by]
- Tony Dup猫 - written-by [cd player song capture: "universe city" written + played by]