High and Dry

High and Dry

Actors:  Howe Gelb, Rainer Ptaček, Giant Sand, Joey Burns, John Convertino, Calexico Directors:  Michael Toubassi

A documentary profiling the history of Tucson, Arizona's eclectic music scene. The past two decades have seen a number of singular talents emerge from Tucson, including Giant Sand's Howe Gelb, who has been called "the godfather of the alt-country movement," seminal blues slide-guitarist Rainer Ptaček, and original cow punk Al Perry. The city has...