Love and Fear
Released: Mar 21, 2006
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Released: Mar 21, 2006
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Tom Russell has been slugging it out on the unpaved singer/songwriter road to oblivion for decades. He's been through crooked promoters, bad label deals, playing in dives, and crummy travel...
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Raw Vision: The Tom Russell Band 1984-1994
Released: Sep 20, 2005
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Released: Sep 20, 2005
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Raw Vision is a compilation from the Tom Russell Band's Rounder/Philo recordings. As such it is a competent, somewhat representative, but nowhere near thorough enough collection of Russell's best...
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Hotwalker
Released: Mar 1, 2005
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Released: Mar 1, 2005
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Songwriter Tom Russell has long been possessed by the ghosts and places of history, big and small, from William Faulkner and outlaw Claude Dallas to Jack Johnson, Little Willie John and Bill Haley,...
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Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs
Released: Feb 24, 2004
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Released: Feb 24, 2004
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As its title suggests, Tom Russell's Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs finds him returning to the sound of the Southwest and the Old West in a combination of originals and covers. He has dug into his...
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Modern Art
Released: Apr 22, 2003
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Released: Apr 22, 2003
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Modern Art has to be the most confounding recording in Tom Russell's catalog. That he is a songwriter of epic proportion there can be no doubt. His decision here to issue a recording of half...
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Museum of Memories 1972-2002
Released: Oct 1, 2002
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Released: Oct 1, 2002
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Museum of Memories 1972-2002, a career-spanning collection of Tom Russell's live and studio obscurities, is so good that it's hard to believe these are the leftovers. It's also hard to understand...
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Borderland
Released: Apr 17, 2001
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Released: Apr 17, 2001
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Tom Russell proves once again to be perhaps the finest American folk-roots artist that most Americans never heard of. The title of this latest collection reflects a focus on the El Paso-Juarez...
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The Man from God Knows Where
Released: Mar 16, 1999
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Released: Mar 16, 1999
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Tom Russell had been releasing great records for about 25 years by the time he issued this album, but he outdoes himself here. Eight years in the making, The Man from God Knows Where is a song...
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Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection
Released: Sep 9, 1997
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Released: Sep 9, 1997
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Along with The Long Way Around, another acoustic package also released in 1997, Song of the West was Tom Russell's attempt to sum up the previous ten years of his career on two newly recorded CDs....
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