Calexico "Superstition Highway" 1995

Joey Burns about SUPERSTITION HIGHWAY: John Convertino and I met through a mutual friend in Los Angeles back in 1989. John was a member of the group Giant Sand and they were looking for an upright bass player versed in jazz, country, and rock and able to improvise...
...We played together in Los Angeles for some years before moving to Tucson, around 1993, where while playing with GS and other local groups like the Friends of Dean Martin(ez) John and I started writing and recording our own tunes in his apartment, on reel to reel 8 track around 1995. Before then we just made up tunes for the outgoing message machine on his phone or would carry around a cassette tape recorder with us, accumulated a batch of noise and snippets entitled “Superstition Highway”. This first outing was loaded with tape hiss that we tried to sell on the road in Europe with GS. I bought a cheap boom box there and some tapes and duped a few copies every day to sell that night. Only trouble was, I was either too tired from the travels or the partying or both so that some of the copies wound up being sold as blank cassettes. It took a while before we caught up with technology. - discogs

trax:
01 You Are Just It 02 Hello Stranger 03 Spark 04 State Of Emergen-C 05 Freezing 06 Scribble 07 Conmemorativo 08 Recipe 09 Deep Water 10 Night at the Checkers 11 Window Watching 12 Chunder 13 There's A Tremble 14 Once It's Gone 15 You're Scaring Me 16 Last Little Stab 17 Smash 18 Wishbone 19 Town East Of Cancer 20 She Is Fine 21 Ice Cream Jeep