Description
Title: Mesabi
Artist: Tom Russell
Label: Shout Factory
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 826663127751
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 2011-09-06
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: BONUS TRACKS
Singer/songwriter Tom Russell returns with a powerful follow-up to his acclaimed 2009 album BLOOD AND CANDLE SMOKE. Co-produced by Russell and keyboardist Barry Walsh, and recorded in Tucson, Texas, Nashville and Los Angeles, MESABI features contributions from Calexico, Van Dyke Parks and Lucinda Williams, the last of whom guest on a cover of Bob Dylans -A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall.- a consummate storyteller, Russell has amassed a devoted following that cherishes his vivid, novelistic tales evoking the spirit of the American experience in tightly constructed, panoramic vignettes. Among his most ardent fans are fellow artists; Johnny Cash, Doug Sahm, K.D. lang, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Iris Dement, Dave Alvin, Joe Ely, Ian Tyson, Nanci Griffith, and Guy Clark have all recorded Toms songs.
Tracks:
1.1 Mesabi
1.2 When the Legends Die
1.3 Farewell Never Never Land
1.4 The Lonesome Death of Ukulele Ike
1.5 Sterling Hayden
1.6 Furious Love [For Liz]
1.7 A Land Called “”Way Out There””
1.8 Roll the Credits, Johnny
1.9 Heart Within a Heart
1.10 And God Created Border Towns
1.11 Goodnight, Juarez
1.12 Jai Alai
1.13 Love Abides
1.14 A Hard Rain”s A-Gonna Fall
1.15 The Road to Nowhere
