Artist	Song
Gravel	Erase
Gravel	Lone Ride
Gravel	No Stone Unturned
Gravel	As For Tomorrow
Gravel	I'm Through
Gravel	Stone Yard
Gravel	Yesterday
Gravel	Slow Driver
Gravel	Bucket Of Blood
Gravel	Sand In My Eyes
Gravel	Sleepless Night
Gravel	Swollen Shut
Gravel	In Your Eye
Gravel	Halfway
Gravel	Over The Edge
Gravel	Barbed Wire
Gravel	The Wind

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This is mix is about a "lost" band, you know, a band that releases a few records, plays some gigs, and then disappears off the face of the earth. We've all been fans of such bands, wondering to ourselves 'Why didn't this band get noticed?' Gravel was a band from Anacortes, WA, a small town between Seattle and Bellingham, best known as the jumping off point to take the ferry to the San Juan islands. The band consisted of Bryan Elliot (guitar/vocals), Rich Papritz (guitar), Dale Robinson (bass), and Bob Vaux (drums). Robinson was wheelchair-bound but that didn't stop him from rocking. Gravel released two records on the Bellingham-based Estrus records in the mid 90's "Break-A-Bone" and "No Stone Unturned" both long out of print. They didn't sound like any of their contemporaries on Estrus, best known for releasing trashy three-chord garage rock, like the label's flagship band The Mono Men.
Gravel played garage rock, minus the trashiness, elements of grunge minus the whininess, hard rock without the histronics.
What was left was hard rock infused with a soulfulness, instrospection, and a sense of dark foreboding. They closely share the rural isolation of early Screaming Trees, and the Northwest gothic feel of the Walkabouts. The band's widest exposure came on the inclusion of the single "Yesterday" on the K records comp "International Hip Swing" That's where I first discovered them. I don't know what became of the band after those Estrus records.
I never got to see them live. For a brief time, Gravel existed and made two great records, and that's good enough for me.

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