The Sky Above, The Mud Below

Damn - with the release of this new album, Tom Russell may not remain my little secret anymore. But hey..I'm not one to want to deny an artist their due just so I can stand in the front row without effort. Bring on the grammy! Tom Russell is an American icon.

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Oh and then there's the Tom Russell train journeys. Of particular note is this one...

2007 Roots on the Rails:
Tom Russell's Tarahumara Train
On board the Sierra Madre Express from Tucson, Arizona to the Copper Canyon of Mexico and return
September 13-20, 2007
SOLD OUT - now accepting waitlist names
DAVE ALVIN
TOM RUSSELL
LAURIE LEWIS & TOM ROZUM
BUTCH HANCOCK
TERRY ALLEN

The Details

And here's Tom Russel with the topical, "Who's gonna build your wall."

You've got fundamentalist muslims,
you've got fundamentalist jews,
you've got fundamentalist christians
They'll blow the whole thing up for you.

But as I travel around this big old world
the thing that I most fear
is a white guy in a golf shirt with a cell phone in his ear.