Tianna Hall Sambuca, March 4 You could argue that Tianna Hall is the best jazz singer in all of Houston. I mean, you could argue against it too, but it's like arguing that the moon landing was f... Continue reading "The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: Tianna Hall, Tom Russell, Bruno Mars, etc." >
Tom Russell : Gallo del Cielo [ purchase ] Due to my love of country and folk music, I have 68 horse mp3s in my collection. But since I always wait until the last minute to post on Star Marker Machine, I usually miss my chance to post my first thought on the given subject. I spent the week scouring my brain trying to think of a non-horse animal kingdom song to post. Finally on Thursday, while listening to Outlaw Country on XM radio, it hit me. [...]
"Sometimes the devil wears a ski mask, and god created border towns..." Just another Tom Russell beauty from last year's excellent Mesabi album. Featuring longtime Sir Doug sideman Augie Meyers on piano, while that special narcocorrido flavour comes courtesy of Jacob Valenzuela on trumpet and Joel Guzman on accordion. "Saint Jude, your children are running out of luck..." Tom Russell - And God Created Border Towns
This is the title song from Tom Russell's 1999 album which, "...is a song cycle tracing the journeys of Russell's ancestors from Europe to America, and the struggles they encountered there. Recorded in Norway near the spot where his great-grandfather was born in 1847, the album features singers Iris DeMent, Dolores Keene and Dave Van Ronk playing the roles of Russell's various ancestors and telling their stories. The title came from the epitaph of another Tom Russell, an Irish activist executed in 1803." Today is Tom's birthday!
This song too is from Russell's Album The Man from God Knows Where.
This is the title song from Tom Russell's 1999 album which, "...is a song cycle tracing the journeys of Russell's ancestors from Europe to America, and the struggles they encountered there. Recorded in Norway near the spot where his great-grandfather was born in 1847, the album features singers Iris DeMent, Dolores Keene and Dave Van Roink playing the roles of Russell's various ancestors and telling their stories. The title came from the epitaph of another Tom Russell, an Irish activist executed in 1803." Today is Tom's birthday!
This is Tom Russell , performing live in concert at Hollandsche, Rading, Netherlands, back on the 16th September 2005. Tom is an American singer-songwriter. Although most strongly identified with the Texas Country music tradition, his music also incorporates elements of folk, Tex-Mex, and the cowboy music of the American West. Many of his songs have been recorded by other artists, including Johnny Cash, k. d. lang, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Nanci Griffith, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Iris Dement, Dave Alvin, and Suzy Bogguss. Tom has also done collaborative work with renowned cowboy poet Paul [...]
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The storytelling gifts that Tom Russell has brought to songs for 35 years have reached new peaks on Mesabi, another stunning album of Southwest-borderlands rock.Russell begins this wide-ranging collection with "Mesabi," a song named for the Minnesota iron range of Bob Dylan's childhood, imagining how strongly those early influences struck young ears. Singing of the "Bethlehem of the
TOM RUSSELL | MESABI SHOUT FACTORY ! Following 2009’s Blood and Candle Smoke (review here ), legendary singer/songwriter Tom Russell is back with a new release, Mesabi . Russell explores his passion for Tex-Mex in new ways; gone are the constant backing sounds of Calexico (although they make a great guest appearance with Lucinda Williams on a cover of “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”) and in its place are odes to border towns and reflections on Bob Dylan [...]
"The kid heard Howlin' Wolf every night on the radio, from those airwaves blasting all the way, Nogales, Mexico..." Wherein Tom Russell lovingly salutes Dylan, and the whole North Country with it. Complete with mariachi trumpets, this is the expressive title track of his new album. "Some things never change..." Tom Russell - Mesabi MP3
Tom Russell's Mesabi offers powerful meditations on heroes and legends. The title of Tom Russell's new album, Mesabi, refers to the Mesabi Iron Range in northeastern Minnesota, one of the world's largest deposits of iron ore, a cold, inhospitable place where hard people do hard work. But in Russell's world, and that of many fans of modern music, the Mesabi Range and the nearby town of Hibbing stand for something very different, even mythical: as Russell puts it, that region is "the Bethlehem of the...
Tom Russell is a master songwriter. Having had his songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Nanci Griffith, K.D. Lang and many others artists should make it no big surprise that the release of his 26th album is just around the corner. Mesabi is out on Shout! Factory Sept. 6th but you can hear it all right here. Read more »
Lucinda Williams and Calexico Join Tom Russell on Dylan's 'A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall'
Deep in the texture of Tom Russell's songs exists a well-examined stockpile of history told from the point-of-view of a sociologist with nimble literary prowess. With his larger than life baritone and rustic intelligentsia style, Tom Russell.com is the kind of astute writer who can dig deep into lore, history, and popular culture effortlessly. Whether spinning songs about Navajo rugs, the Seine River, Nina Simone, Africa, or bygone Hollywood, Russell is a distinct brand of songwriter with few peers. Sometimes hard-bitten, sometimes softly sentimental, sometimes sardonic as hell, Russell mixes his past and present - sociology graduate, teacher, cab [...]
You may not be familiar with the name Tom Russell , but you damn well outta be. A published author and respected artist, music is Russell's day job, and the years have seen his songs covered by luminaries with names like Johnny Cash, Dave Van Ronk, Jerry Jeff Walker, Doug Sahm and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. Part troubadour, part Beatnik poet, his talent is such that Lawrence Ferlinghetti (he of Go fame) asserts that Russell’s characters capture, "the wounded heart of America.” Not at all insignificant praise. [...]
It seems like Tom Russell has been around forever, usually rocking his country-folk approach, with hints of Americana fueled by Mexicana. He's got a new record coming out on Shout Factory in September titled Mesabi , and I've really been channeling the music of my father today, so this track definitely hits home. But, for those of you unfamiliar with the veteran, you'll find vocal reminiscent of Roky E , which is no surprise since both men have been rocking the Texas [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Follow That Bird : "Wooden Bones" [mp3] from Wooden Bones search for more Follow That Bird posts at Largehearted Boy Halloween, Alaska : "Dance By Accident" [mp3] from [...]
Sunday already? High time for Wild Weekend #49. Let´s see, what do we have here... Well, Tomatito salutes his uncle in Andalusian style, while Tom Russell spends some precious time in the last bar on earth. Meanwhile in the female vocals department, we´ve got a Helen, a Tracyanne and even a Bezunesh. Cool, no? In any case, be sure to have a wild one, y´all. First we move to sunny Spain to meet up with Tomatito, the virtuoso longhaired gitano who succeeded Paco de Lucía as the principal [...]
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