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NEVER is a strong addition to the Hooker catalog

such as Bruno Mars' early-'80s flavored "Locked Out of Heaven

On a much less serious entry

but most of this features a singer/songwriter alone with a guitar

but also distinctly articulate in their often complex twists and turns

Returns To Valley Of Rain 9/30/1997 NEVER is a strong additionIn early 2016, Howe Gelb announced that, three decades after the release of Giant Sand's first album, he decided the time had come to retire his long running alt country band, issuing a statement in which he declared, "30 years seems an adequate number to aptly utter 'I kinda quit.'" Apparently, that qualifying "kinda" was included for a good reason, and in the fall of 2018, Gelb revealed he had put together a new lineup of Giant Sand and was