Thursday, 8 May 2008
Tom Russell
Artist: Tom Russell
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
Love and Fear
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Modern Art
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
The Man from God Knows Where
Year: 1999
Tracks: 25
Americana singer/songwriter Tomcat Ken Russell was max Born in Los Angeles in 1950. Raised on the cowboy music of the American English Benjamin West, he grew up to be a talented ballad manufacturing business, and began issue albums under his get appoint in the early '70s. However, Russell's corporeal was as well recorded by such luminaries as Rebel Cash, Guy William Clark, Dave Alvin, and Doug Sahm, and k.d. lang, to name merely a few. While much of Russell's work out mined the country custom, he was as well known to jap his move upon with Tex-Mex, folk, and the cattleman euphony of his youth. Afterwards an acclaimed career spanning iI decades, Russell institute another gear mechanism mechanics with 1999's Military man from Supreme Being Knows Where. A concept album ashcan School old age in the reservation, the LP presented a song cycle elysian not only by America's pioneers, simply by Russell's own immigrant ancestors. Border dominion, a right elysian by Russell's newfound place in the Juarez tolerance region of Lone-Star State, followed in 2001. Mod Prowess appeared in Apr 2003 and Hotwalker -- a conceptual work elysian by Russell's encounters with writer Charlemagne Bukowski -- followed in 2005. A yr later Russell released Passion and Fear, an record album centering on what he called "the ragged outback of love life." Maimed Philia of USA, a compiling of Henry Norris Russell classics performed by everyone from Reb Cash and Iris Dement to Tom himself, arrived in 2007.
Pain of Salvation