This deluxe re-issue includes ‘Dust Bowl’ on vinyl for the very first time, with the records housed in a gatefold sleeve featuring updated artwork and liner notes. ‘The Coincidentalist’, originally released in 2013, features a raft of friends and collaborators including Bonnie Prince Billy, Andrew Bird, M. Ward, Steve Shelley, and Jason Lytle of Grandaddy with John Parrish on mixing duties. Ever the focal point of Giant Sand and Gelb releases, the Arizona Desert serves as a key inspiration for the record, animating the baron landscape with stories of those that have navigated them. Praise for the release was not short, with AllMusic proclaiming that it’s “one of Gelb's most realized efforts; despite its relaxed, airy presentation, it's musically and lyrically provocative, as poetic, strange, and mysterious as the desert itself." The accompanying collection ‘Dust Bowl’ is a personal sketchbook of songs, a more stripped back set than it’s counterpart. Featuring everything from the country blues of ‘Porch Banjo’ and ‘John Deere’, to off-kilter piano ballads like ‘The Old Overrated’ and ‘Reality Or Not’ and the deconstructed desert pop on ‘Forever And A Day’ and the fragile ‘Man On A String’. ‘Dust Bowl’ is an insider’s view of Howe’s songwriting craft, a unique insight into the man himself A1 Vortexas (feat Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) A2 Left of Center A3 Running Behind A4 The 3 Deaths of Lucky (feat. KT Tunstall) A5 Unforgivable A6 Instigated Chimes B1 The Coincidentalist (feat. Andrew Bird) B2 Triangulate B3 Picacho Peak B4 An Extended Plane of Existence B5 Looking That Way C1 Dust Bowl C2 Porch Banjo C3 Lost Love C4 Man on a String C5 Reality or Not C6 John Deere C7 Windblown Waltz D1 Redelivery Blues D2 Forever and a Day D3 Plane of Existence
