Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb is conversing with filmmaker and author Bill Carter on Thursday, Dec. 18, at 6 p.m., at MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), 149 N. Stone Ave. The godfather of alt country–or Tucson soul, if you really want to be correct–will talk about his creative process as a songwriter.
The evening is free to MOCA members, and $5 for nonmembers. For more info on this and other MOCA events, go to www.moca-tucson.org.
This article appears in Dec 11-17, 2008.
Look at Howe riding around town with those boys from Calexico. That “Chore of Enchantment” was one swell album.
Wow. Why am I always amazed at what Tucson has to offer? I even forget that Giant Sand is from here! It could be my inner condemnation of the little town after being away for sometime, I actually got LOST driving down what had been the envy of many cities River Road 🙁 :confused . WTF happened? Ok I am just getting over it and decided to hop down to Death Cab etc last weekend at TCC and couldn’t understand why there were tickets left(especially w/ excellent lineup) until I walked in to a highly lit room w/ the worst accoustics on the planet) and I understood. Powers that be must have thought straightening out River(near Dodge) for growth, were likely the same morons that think it’s more important to sell booze at music event than dim the lights! Ok they did dim lights FINALLY for DCC and I suppose it’s better to participate and secure my right to bitch about these inanities!!! So cool,I guess I’ll go to MOCA and appreciate what is still cool in little Tucson town:)!