Just 100 CDs Howe Gelb wrote, produced and personally manufactured on Christmas Eve to benefit two humanitarian aid workers on trial for providing medical assistance to migrants. Packaging is a black clamshell (numbers over 65 are clear clamshell) with Michael Hyatt photo above. For more information about the case, see http://www.nomoredeaths.org.

[written by @ 2005 howe gelb - scatter land my little darlin BMI]
amazing grace: traditional

howe gelb = voice, guitars + piano
freakwater = singing
janet beveridge bean + catherine irwin
drums = peter dombernowsky
kids = talula + luka gelb

recorded by jim blackwood + duncan hudson at kxci studio 2a

drums on cd done by peter dombernowsky
mixed by howe and duncan hudson
mastered by jim blackwood at kuat

artists appear courtesy of thrill jockey records

stained by the sun
ravaged by ravine
if no one had come
the last we would have ever seen
its easy to forget
in this december chill
the swelter of summer
and how the sweat did spill
the pulverization
of the sonoran sun
and its penatration
of father and son
when i checked last time
humanitarian aid was not a crime
these times are tight
these times are tryin'
when the city unites
it can even save the odd mountain lion
(amazing grace)
free the tucson 2
(i once was lost)
free the tucson 2
(but now i'm found)
are your kids ok in the air conditioned car ?
"yes we are, yes we are, yes we are..."

two humanitarian aid workers named shanti and dan
just trying to lend a hand
to some migrant workers
going down hard in the sonaran sun
they got arrested taking them to the hospital
up there in tucson
free the tucson 2
free the tucson 2

BONUS TRACK:

underground train

the band of... blacky ranchette (1986) - from "Heartland"