Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology (2008)

Artist: Tom Russell
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Label: Shout Factory
UPC: 00826663109986
Release Date: 10/28/2008
Buy.com Sku: 209826253
Item#: M4GCTJ
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Joshua Tree - (featuring Patricia Hardin) ~ Tom Russell
2. Cropduster ~ Tom Russell
3. One And One - (featuring Shawn Colvin) ~ Tom Russell
4. U.S. Steel ~ Tom Russell
5. Home Before Dark ~ Tom Russell
6. Navajo Rug ~ Tom Russell
7. Veteran's Day ~ Tom Russell
8. Outbound Plane ~ Tom Russell
9. Gallo Del Cielo - (featuring Ian Tyson) ~ Tom Russell
10. Haley's Comet ~ Tom Russell
11. Manzanar ~ Tom Russell
12. Cleaning Windows - (with Barrence Whitfield) ~ Tom Russell
13. Tulare Dust/They're Tearin' The Labor Camps Down ~ Tom Russell
14. Rose Of The San Joaquin, The ~ Tom Russell
15. Out In California ~ Tom Russell
16. St. Olav's Gate - (featuring Nanci Griffith) ~ Tom Russell
17. Big Water - (featuring Iris DeMent) ~ Tom Russell
18. Angel Of Lyon [Live], The ~ Tom Russell
19. Blue Wing [Live] - (featuring Dave Alvin) ~ Tom Russell
20. Beyond The Blues - (featuring Jimmie Dale Gilmore) ~ Tom Russell
Disc 2
Song TitleSample
1. Sky Above, The Mud Below, The ~ Tom Russell
2. Throwin' Horseshoes At The Moon ~ Tom Russell
3. Down The Rio Grande ~ Tom Russell
4. California Snow ~ Tom Russell
5. Touch Of Evil ~ Tom Russell
6. Isaac Lewis ~ Tom Russell
7. Kid From Spavinaw ~ Tom Russell
8. Tonight We Ride ~ Tom Russell
9. Grapevine ~ Tom Russell
10. Van Ronk ~ Tom Russell
11. Pugilist At 59, The ~ Tom Russell
12. Ash Wednesday ~ Tom Russell
13. Stealing Electricity ~ Tom Russell
14. Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? ~ Tom Russell
15. Death Of Jimmy Martin, The ~ Tom Russell
16. Dark Angel [Acoustic Version] - (previously unreleased) ~ Tom Russell
17. Roll The Credits - (previously unreleased) ~ Tom Russell



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Personnel: Michael Martin (guitar, guitars, mandolin).
Audio Remasterer: Bob Fisher .
Liner Note Author: Mike Regenstreif.
Photographers: David Burckhalter; Raymond Mosken; Mark Weakly; Brian Kanof.
So this is what it comes to: Shout Factory does Hightone's songwriters. For those who don't know, Oakland, CA's defunct Hightone Records was a small independent that focused on blues -- its debut release was Robert Cray's Bad Influence in 1983 -- and eventually spread itself to include all kinds of roots music including, country, rockabilly, and the music that walked in between. While the other two volumes in this series focus on single discs by Dave Alvin and Buddy Miller -- two artists who came to be synonymous with the label -- Tom Russell is the dark horse, the most restless and surly of songwriters who has made a career of positioning himself as an outsider, and whether he really enjoys that distinction or not is debatable, but he is one nonetheless. He's written songs for Ian Tyson and Nanci Griffith (both of whom appear here, among others) and many others. His career dates back further to the mid-'70s and is entirely on display in this fine, 37-track, two-disc anthology. This collection begins with a tribute to the late Gram Parsons called " Joshua Tree" (long before there were tributes to Parsons) with Patricia Hardin, a singer and pianist whom Russell recorded a pair of albums with. There's also the nugget "One and One," a duet with Shawn Colvin released four year before her own debut album. Most of the rest of disc one is filled with selections the Tom Russell Band issued on Rounder's miniscule Philo subsidiary, and comprise much of his best known material, from "U.S. Steel," and "Navajo Rug" to "Outbound Plane" and "Veteran's Day." Russell and Tyson perform his signature tune, "Galle del Cielo," here. There are 20 cuts on disc one, including "Angel of Lyon," a track written by Russell and the rambling itinerant songman Steve Young.
Disc two focuses exclusively on the material Russell issued for Hightone, and features many of his finest moments as a writer and performer including "Sky Above, Mud Below," "The Death of Jimmy Martin," and the brilliant, "The Pugilist at 59," which brings us the best of the American short story tradition in song form. One can hear the ghosts of Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, and Sherwood Anderson in the verses and choruses. Longtime Russell fans debate the Hightone material, and compare it endlessly to his live performances and his Philo catalog. But that doesn't matter so much. Most everything here fills out the portrait of an artist who aims at bigger than life but only finds solace outside its rules. Only the listener can decide if he succeeds, but whatever that judgment, one thing is indisputable: Russell is a true original. He is among the last of an aging -- and sometimes dying -- breed, who has roamed the nation, read its books, followed its various heritages in life, art, and history, and chronicled that history in their songs, blurring the lines between the personal and the archetypal. For that reason alone, this collection is worth the time of anyone who wants to hear this tradition at its best. For the longtime fan or the beginner, these songs are unlike anyone else's and thank goodness, for this is an honest to goodness look at the rambling, contentious, and sometimes uneven career of one of our own lineage song poets on the shelves. Get it before it's gone. ~ Thom Jurek

Producer: Jeff Palo; David McLees; Tom Russell; David McLees (Compilation); Tom Russell (Compilation)

Musical Guests
Patricia Hardin
Shawn Colvin
Ian Tyson
Nanci Griffith
Iris DeMent
Dave Alvin
Jimmie Dale Gilmore

 
Compilation Appearances
Philo So Far-20th Anniversary
Tulare Dust
Twenty Years Of Stony Plain
Vol. 1-Steel Rails
Vol. 2-Folkscene Collection
Silverwolf Records
Kerrville Folk Festival Highlights
Parkinsong Vol 1: 38 Songs Of Hope
Elko A Cowboys Gathering
Hits & Misses Muhammad Ali & The Ultimate Sound Of Fist Fighting
American Music:hightone Records Story
Wounded Heart Of America
Gift:tribute To Ian Tyson
High Tone Anthology: Rockin From The Roots /
Chris Gaffney Tribute: Man of Somebody

 
Associated Artists and Works
Wounded Heart Of America (Tom Russell Songs) ~ Various Artists
Whitfield, Barrence
Whitfield, Barrence

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 10/28/2008
Original Release Date : 2008
Catalog ID : 8266631099
Label : Shout! Factory
Number of Discs : 2
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00826663109986

  
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