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Let’s go Up in the Old Hotel with Tom Russell

Let’s Go into the Afternoon with To Russell’s  Up in the Old Hotel 

Tom Russell’s latest release Folk Hotel has been in my music rotation for a week or so now. And I like the album more and more each time I listen to it. There are few songwriters whose songs send me to Wikipedia to look up references as do Tom’s. As A matter of fact, I was  sent scurrying on the first song “Up in the Old Hotel”. The first thing that I went to find out about was who was Joseph Mitchell, whose ghost wanders the halls of Tom’s Folk Hotel. Here’s what I found…… Read More

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue (s) Playlist – Part Two

Playlist Part 2  – Something Borrowed, Something Blue(s)

Starts with Something Borrowed – Tom Russell –  Play One More:The Songs of Ian & Sylvia

Yesterday, I posted the first half of my Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue (s)Playlist. You can read about it here. The second half of my playlist starts with “Something Borrowed”. What was borrowed were the songs that comprise the latest release from.Tom Russell. Russell borrowed twelve songs from Ian and Sylvia Tyson for an album aptly titled Play One More: The Songs  of Ian and Sylvia. According to his website….. Read More

Into the Morning with Tom Russell and the Norweigen Wind Ensemble and “Nina Simone”

Tom RussellIt was late, I was  on the way home from Target, the iPhone was on shuffle and then I heard sound of the Norwegian Wind Ensemble with Thad Beckman, and soon Tom Russell and I were traveling,  we were in San Cristobal and listening to Nina Simone on the jukebox…… Tom surely  can paint a picture with his words and music…..I love songs that provide a “sense of place” and songs that move me, This song does both of those things very well….at least for me! So let’s all go into the morning with Tom and his song “Nina Simone” from the album Tom’s latest album Aztec Jazz….. Read More

Sunday Night -“An Evening with Tom Russell” in Vienna Virginia

So with the lights low at the Jammin’ Java in Vienna Virginia on Sunday night the announcement came “Ladies and Gentlemen, Tom Russell” and one of my heroes Tom Russell took the stage, with lead guitarist Thad Beckman, and thoroughly entertained me for the next two plus hours! The show opened with Tom telling abbout his trip to Duluth Minnesota and then to Hibbing birthplace and home of Bob Dylan and then the Mesabi Range. From his notes Russell describes his trip like this: Read More

Folk Monday – Old Friends Slaid Cleaves and Tom Russell!

So what’s been playing on the iPod over these last few days. A couple of the albums are the latest albums for two old favorites. The first is a two disc live album from Slaid Cleaves titled  Sorrow & Smoke: Live at the Horeshoe Lounge. I’ve been a Slaid fan since I first heard him one Sunday night on Gene Shay’s folk show. We’ve been to many of Slaid’s shows here in Philly and this album does a good job of capturing the spirit of his show.The album was recorded at two shows  one in April  4 and the other in September of 2010 at the Horseshoe Lounge in Austin. Helped out by frequent bandmates Michael O’Connor on acoustic lead guitar and vocals and Oliver Steck on accordion, harmonica, trumpet and harmony vocals, Slaid makes his way through 20 songs most of them from his last four albums No Angel Knows,  Wishbones,  Broke Down and  Everything You Love will Be Taken Away, along with a couple of Don Walser songs, where Slaid’s  yodeling prowess is showcased. One new track “Go for the Gold” closes the show. Read More