EL PASO, NEW MEXICO BASED AMERICANA SINGER-SONGWRITER, PAINTER, NOVELIST AND SOUNDTRACK WRITER WORKAHOLIC TOM RUSSELL KEEPS A- ROLLING.

Like tumbleweed across the barren desert near his Borderland home.

Tom Russell has come a long way since, as a kid he used to idolise the likes of his departed old friend, Dave Van Ronk and Bob Dylan whom he met when still a teenager. Steeped in rich nostalgic stories Russell, through his great hunger of the works and folklore of his heroes he has built up a collection of recordings matched by few. Tom also has a great love of the road. As we speak he getting himself ready for a tour that will take him right on through to February next year. It is a long haul but Tom is used to such things, years ago when he was cutting his teeth he would play Canada’s clubs and bars during the depth of winter. Just to get his foot in the door. That is along with him working in Austin, New York and Norway where he worked hard to the breaks needed to get his career into shape.

Russell’s compositions have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Dave Van Ronk, Nanci Griffith, Dave Alvin, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ian Tyson, Suzy Bogguss, Gretchen Peters, Katy Moffatt, Doug Sahm and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott among others. He is a man of many facets and hugely talented in more areas than people would dream possible and, on top of that he puts on a great live show. He is a man who puts a lot into his music and rewards those who go out to see him perform, for his music is honest and his stories of a kind you are unlikely to have heard before. As he continues the great, age-old art of storytelling as he absorbs old tales, folklore and yesterday’s pioneers.