Video: Tom Russell: Mesabi Promo #1

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...