Release Date: 24 February, 2004
Audio CD
Tracks
- Tonight We Ride
- Seven Curses
- Paso
- All This Way for the Short Ride
- Bucking Horse Moon
- Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts
- No Telling
- Bacon Rind, Chief Seattle, the Ballad of Ira Hayes
- Old Blue
- East Texas Red
- Ballad of Edward Abbey
- Little Blue Horse
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Rating 5.0
One of those seminal/ovularian guys...Someone once said that if you bought every miles davis album, and the albums by everyone who ever played on one, you'd have an ultimate jazz collection. Tom Russell is like that. If you bought every album that had a Tom Russell song on it, or the albums of everyone who ever played with Tom on one of his, you would have a collection that would include the top of the rock/country/folk/folk-rock charts for twenty or more years.
Now Tom does the favor (again) to others' music, using a bunch of artists who are equally unsung legends. There are a number of people out there who are becoming consummate collectors and interpreters of the American Music Idiom; Ry Cooder, Dave Alvin, Ian Tyson, and Tom Russell. On this Album, Tom and his stellar backers take some familar and some rare songs and do 'em up right in the Western way.
worth the purchase.As AdvertisedI had never heard of Tom Russell until about a month ago when he was on David Letterman. He sang "Tonight We Ride," on the show and I ordered the cd a day or two later. This disc is exactly what the title says, a collection of songs about cowboys, indians, horses and dogs.
It includes cover versions of some classic Dylan songs and new songs, and has playing in my car quite a bit. I'm not a big country fan, but to me this is not really country music, but a mixture of country, rock and even some folk.
I bought the disc based on one song I heard and was not at all disappointed. The song I had heard was the best song on the disc, but there are some other great songs on here, and not a bad song in the group. I will be adding more of his discs to my collection.A little bit Johnny Cash......a little bit Lee Hazelwood. I bought this album blind, on a recommendation (probably because I've been on an alt.country buying binge lately), but it's rarely been out of my CD player since. Tom Russell is as much a storyteller as a country musician. It's like the soundtrack of a great 60s western movie that never was. |
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