Dust and Dreams

Rock · 1991 · 16 tracks

Dust and Dreams

A cinematic retelling of The Grapes of Wrath through soaring guitar leads, dusty harmonica, and pastoral woodwinds. Melancholic, expansive, and deeply narrative.

It's a prog-rock road movie through the Dust Bowl with some of the most emotional guitar playing you'll ever hear.

A heavy, sun-baked melancholy that balances the grit of struggle with the grace of endurance.

Dust and Dreams · vs · Camel

Desert+4.0σ

Desert saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks

01

Dust Bowl

1:54

02

Go West

3:43

03

Dusted Out

1:35

04

Mother Road

4:16

05

Needles

2:34

06

Rose of Sharon

4:48

07

Milk n’ Honey

3:36

08

End of the Line

6:53

09

Storm Clouds

2:07

10

Cotton Camp

2:56

11

Broken Banks

0:35

12

Sheet Rain

2:15

13

Whispers

0:52

14

Little Rivers and Little Rose

1:57

15

Hopeless Anger

5:00

16

Whispers in the Rain

2:54

Moments Worth Waiting For

The transition from the sparse, wind-swept opening of Dust Bowl into the driving, optimistic rhythm of Go West.

The haunting interplay between the oboe and Latimer's signature crying guitar tone during the instrumental suite of the second half.

The explosion of pent-up frustration in Hopeless Anger where the guitar finally breaks its polite restraint.

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