Tom Russell Blogs on New Release
El Paso based renaissance man and Americana forefather Tom Russell will be posting a series of writings on his blog, each tied to a song on his forthcoming new release. The first post in this series is for the song East of Woodstock, West of Viet Nam and deals with his time teaching school in Nigeria during the Biafran war.
Russell is recording his new record with members of Calexico and Bob Dylan’s drummer from Unplugged, Winston Watson at Wave Lab studios in Tucson, AZ. Gretchen Peters and Barry Walsh will also appear contributing backing vocal and keyboards respectively.
The album will include 12 new Russell originals; the scheduled release date in the U.S. on Shout Factory! Records is September 22.
Russell did a few new songs from the release when I saw him earlier this year in Berkley, CA. and based on those I think this is going to be a great one.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55055947Related posts:
- Tom Russell and Gretchen Peters to Release One to the Heart, One to the Head
- Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell – Guadalupe
- Tom Russell – Santa Ana Wind mp3 Giveaway
- Album Review – Gretchen Peters With Tom Russell – One to the Heart, One to the Head (Scarlet Letter Records)/Buddy and Julie Miller – Written In Chalk (New West)
- Tom Russell – Berkley, California – 12/06/08