At last year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Howe Gelb’s Giant Giant Sand performed one of the best sets of the entire weekend.  To get a feel, check out the just-released Giant Giant Sand performances below recorded a week after HSB at KEXP.  The versatility and touch of Gelb and the gang was/is astonishing.  Watch as they flow mightily between country, rock, latino-folk and, yes, straight jazz.  Gelb is a national treasure that deserves more of a following.