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Friends of Dean Martinez

A Southwestern alternative rock and roll supergroup of sorts, Arizona’s Close friends of Dean Martinez features past and present people of Giant Fine sand, Calexico, and Naked Victim. Giant Sand head Howe Gelb, though not really a person in the group, has guest keyboards on the debut record, The Shadow …

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Calexico

Calexico take their name from a city on the boundary of California and Mexico, as well as the name certainly matches the music group, who’ve been combining musical techniques and cultural perspectives with elan since group market leaders Joey Melts away and John Convertino began functioning collectively. Fusing the dusty …

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Giant Sand

Large Sand was the principal outlet for the stylistic curveballs and sun-damaged songcraft of Howe Gelb, a Pennsylvania-born singer/guitarist who shaped the four-piece Large Sandworms following relocating to Tuscon, Az in the middle-’70s. After launching the EP Will Wallow and Roam Following the Spoil in 1980, Gelb terminated everyone but …

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