In the Summer of 1998, having enough clay left over upon completing ' The Thicket', his DRAG CITY solo debut, GASTR DEL SOL's DAVID GRUBBS set out immediately to fashion a companion piece. So he hopped a bird to Paris. Responding to the invitation of QUENTIN ROLLET & NOEL AKCHOTÉ to make an album for their RECTANGLE label, GRUBBS penned ' The Coxcomb', an adaptation in song of STEPHEN CRANE's short story ' The Blue Hotel'. This seventeen minute saga is scored for three voices: The Narrator (STEPH