Friends of Dean Martinez CALEXICO "Shadow of Your Smile" Sealed 1995 US LP MINT

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Friends of Dean Martinez / The Shadow of Your Smile - Sub Pop Records SP-306 (US)(1995) ...This auction is for a factory Sealed, original issue Record on (US) vinyl. It is hard to find and no longer in print.

   A post-modern fusion of Santo & Johnny, Dick Dale and the Ventures, with a heaping side order of Tex-Mex border music. Whether or not the musicians are playing this straight or not, they're playing it very well, and the result is good fun, even if it's totally uncharacteristic of the material offered by the Giant Sand/Calexico/Naked Prey axis in the past.

  Track listings and reviews listed below...
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Detailed item info:

Album Features UPC: 098787030617 Artist: Friends of Dean Martinez Format: LP
Release Year: 1995 Record Label: Sub Pop (USA) Genre: Post Rock, Rock & Pop
Track Listing
(Side One)
1. All the Pretty Horses
2. I Wish You Love
3. House of Pies
4. Chunder
5. Armory Park / Dwell
6. El Tiradito
7. Given the Time

(Side Two)
8. Swamp Cooler
9. Blood of the Earth (Or the Sun Sets Red in the West)
10. Misty
11. Ugly Beauty
12. Shadow of Your Smile, The
13. Per Sempre

Details Contributing Artists: Howe Gelb Distributor: Alternative Dis. Alliance Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo
Album Notes
Friends Of Dean Martinez: Joey Burns (guitar, bass); Bill Elm (steel guitar); John Convertino (vibraphone, marimba); Van Christian (drums); Tom Larkins (percussion)
Additional personnel: Howe Gelb.
Picture a country presided over by Santo & Johnny (of "Sleepwalk" fame), where only Sergio Leone westerns are shown. That would be the environment from which a combo such as Friends of Dean Martinez might spring. Originally named Friends of Dean Martin, the band was forced by legal action to add an "ez" to disabuse any conceivable connection to the deceased Rat Packer.
The Friends' all-instrumental repertoire features heartbreakingly smooth voicings of steel guitar, assorted vibes, marimba, and violin, along with a guitar, bass, and drums core. Steel guitarist Bill Elm (formerly of Naked Prey) and Joey Burns (also a member of Giant Sand) are the primary authors of the Friends' original numbers. Though they draw from the same stock as other bands in the loungecore/"Cocktail Nation" movement, theirs is a much edgier and darker concoction-windswept and dry like a scene out of HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER.

Editorial Reviews
7 (out of 10) - ...worshippers at the shrine of St Dick Dale....downbeat, dusky truck-stop music for dust-swept lovers....a more achingly poignant record than Man Or Astro Man? and the like could glean from a lifetime's perusal of the `Tarantino Guide To Surf Pop'...
NME

...an instrumental showcase of quirky charm and postmodern nostalgia. It would charm the pants off your grandparents....Friends Of Dean Martinez are a novelty act, but a novelty act with soul.
Alternative Press (19951201)