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Sandhills Reunion

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Like a Ghost in the Grass; Our Particular Tragedy; 20 Questions for an Outlaw; Nolan; River of Glass; Your Voice; Just Angels; Last Light; Little White Suit; Never to See You; Smart Women; Spun Like a Spur

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Jerry Granelli/Words by Rinde Eckert: Sandhills Reunion

Read "Sandhills Reunion" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
April 10, 2005

Various band members contribute compositional frameworks as a backdrop of sorts for Rinde Eckert's lyricism and recitations on this idyllically focused jazz work. And it's drummer Jerry Granelli's brainchild as he lays down the rhythms for a potpourri of acoustic-electric tunes structured upon medium-tempo rhythms and jazzy dreamscapes. Eckert's likeable recitals are cleanly delivered ...

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Jerry Granelli: Sandhills Reunion

Read "Sandhills Reunion" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
February 5, 2005

Like rocker Bruce Springsten with his Nebraska or author Annie Proulx with her two volumes of Wyoming stories, Jerry Granelli's Sandhill Reunion --where his band accompanies Rinde Eckert's words--evokes the American experience in the prairie heartland, placing poetic viginettes of small experience under a powerful microscope on a set of of jazz-backed prose poems that explore ...

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Jerry Granelli/Words by Rinde Eckert: Sandhills Reunion

Read "Sandhills Reunion" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 2, 2005

In these days of rap-informed everything , the combination of spoken word and jazz is nothing new. Mike Ladd's Negrophilia - The Album (Thirsty Ear, '05), for example, seamlessly blends poetry with electronica-inflected free ideas. But rap has a certain cadence that differs from the less direct rhythms associated with the spoken word of, say, the ...

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