Photograph of the front cover of the approximately 100pp. “Program Guide with Libretto” released in conjunction with Tom Russell’s 2CD recording The Rose Of Roscrae (2015)
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Photograph of Tom Russell taken by Nadine Russell, at an abandoned truck stop in Sierra Blanca, Texas on Highway I10, some 90 miles east of El Paso. Tom recalled “Always meant to drive out there and take more photos – […]
The horses are in the barn, the chickens in the coop, the cat is laying on my toes, and the glow of the fireplace makes this room seem like an old time moving picture as the shadow of the flames […]
When Tom Russell released his first collection of outtakes and obscurities in 2002, he indicated in the liner notes that “there is easily enough strong material for additional releases—the second volume is pretty much in the can already, if this […]
At first blush, this seems a bit presumptuous: An artist compiling a tribute album to himself? That appears to be the case with Wounded Knee, which collects Tom Russell songs rendered by the likes of Johnny Cash, Dave Van Ronk, […]
Living in El Paso has given Tom Russell a close-up view of the debate over controlling U.S. borders. Like a modern Woody Guthrie, Russell’s response is “The Immigrant Suite”, three songs with contrasting viewpoints on the issue. The rollicking title […]
“Pray your passion ain’t used up and gone,” Tom Russell declares in the opening minutes of Love & Fear. On his first album of all original songs since 2001’s Borderland, Russell demonstrates an undiminished passion for his art with penetrating […]
Over eighteen albums, balladeer Tom Russell has written lasting songs that have been recorded by everyone from Johnny Cash to Doug Sahm, and sung them in a smooth, cleanly enunciated baritone that make even his collections of songs by others […]
Tom Russell has long felt a kinship with the American West, examining its people, land and history. On Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs, his third album in the cowboy/western genre, he explores that tradition and adds to it with a well-executed […]
A classic “songwriter’s songwriter” (he’s been covered by Joe Ely, Steve Young, Dave Alvin, Nanci Griffith, Peter Case, Suzy Bogguss, Doug Sahm, Katy Moffat, Tom Paxton, Ian & Sylvia Tyson, Jerry Jeff Walker and Bob Neuwirth), Tom Russell has assembled […]
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