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Track Listings
| 1. Tonight We Ride |
| 2. Seven Curses |
| 3. El Paso |
| 4. All This Way For The Short Ride |
| 5. Bucking Horse Moon |
| 6. Lily, Rosemary, And The Jack Of Hearts |
| 7. No Telling |
| 8. Bacon Rind, Chief Seattle, The Ballad Of Ira Hayes |
| 9. Old Blue |
| 10. East Texas Red |
| 11. The Ballad Of Edward Abbey |
| 12. Little Blue Horse |
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A terriffic album... one of Russell's best.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (Audio CD)
It ain't just cowboy music here. It's a wide ranging excursion from heartfelt love songs to timeless ballads. Great covers of Dylan and others, such as Peter LaFarge's Ballad of Ira Hayes. Russell is in full voice and Andrew Hardin's guitar playing is superb.
5.0 out of 5 stars
anti-Western art,
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This review is from: Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (Audio CD)
Tom Russell's new album is to other Western music what the HBO series Deadwood is to other Western movies: pretty much the antithesis. If Larry McMurtry were a folk singer, this is what he might sound like. Russell's is not a golden-hued West but a dark, treacherous place full of characters whose self-destructive impulses often overwhelm whatever heroic ones they may possess. His daring reimagining of the Marty Robbins classic "El Paso" is a case in point. His version banishes all the romance of the original, focuses on the young cowboy's pain, and causes us to shake our heads at his suicidal stupidity. More, in other words, as the Old West was really like, a frontier as much psychic as geographic, populated in good part by men and women temperamentally unsuited to live amid civilized order. Not that the romantic West is entirely absent. "Bucking Horse Moon" could easily be an Ian Tyson song, not the first of Russell's compositions of which that can be said (in any event, Russell and Tyson are occasional collaborators). That's okay. Tyson is as good as they come, and a new Tyson song, even if Tyson didn't happen to write it, is always welcome. More surprising is the stunning version of the mysterious Dylan Western "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts," which Russell performs in high theatrical fashion in collaboration with Eliza Gilkyson and Joe Ely. Improbably, Russell translates Linda Thompson's fairytale "No Telling" into a hardbitten Western ballad. There is not a single weak cut here. I could not possibly find anything serious to complain about in a singer smart enough to revive the greatest of all dog folk songs, "Old Blue," and then to do it with such good humor and inventiveness. The most striking of the originals is "The Ballad of Edward Abbey," about the late author and environmentalist. Its first verse parodies the opening words of the grim 19th-Century "The Buffalo Skinners" before going on to portray, in crisp, perfect language, a complex man who championed the Western landscape against those who see it only through a haze of dollar signs. Russell admires Abbey but does him the favor of not sentimentalizing him. Russell's actorish singing is occasionally mildly distracting, but no matter. He manages a seamless fusion of modern and traditional sensibility -- philosophical as well as musical -- and in the process creates something that can properly be called real art.
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a Shock--Another Outstanding Tom Russell Album,
By Uncle Gilbert (Lompoc, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs (Audio CD)
Wow...Tom does it yet again. Whether as a songwriter or as an interpreter of others' songs (Dylan, Marty Robbins, Linda Thompson, et al), the Incredible Mr. Russell is simply the voice of America. Why are you reading this? BUY THIS ALBUM! NOW!
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