Tom Russell

   
Artist: Tom Russell

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Love and Fear

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


   
 Modern Art

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 The Man from God Knows Where

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 25

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Americana singer/songwriter Tom Russell was born in Los Angeles in 1950. Raised on the cowboy music of the American West, he grew up to be a talented ballad maker, and began issuing albums under his have appoint in the early '70s. However, Russell's corporeal was as well recorded by such luminaries as Johnny Cash, Guy Clark, Dave Alvin, and Doug Sahm, and k.d. lang, to name but a few. While much of Russell's work mined the land custom, he was as well known to nip his act upon with Tex-Mex, folk, and the cowboy music of his youth. After an acclaimed career spanning iI decades, Russell institute another gear mechanism with 1999's Serviceman from God Knows Where. A concept album eight old age in the qualification, the LP presented a song cycle elysian not only by America's pioneers, but by Russell's own immigrant ancestors. Border district, a correct elysian by Russell's newfound home in the Juarez margin region of Texas, followed in 2001. Mod Art appeared in April 2003 and Hotwalker -- a conceptual work elysian by Russell's encounters with writer Charles Bukowski -- followed in 2005. A year later Russell released Love and Fear, an album focussing on what he called "the ragged outback of love." Wounded Heart of America, a compilation of Russell classics performed by everyone from Johnny Cash and Iris Dement to Tom himself, arrived in 2007.





The Walker - 5/27/2008