Tom Russell

Tom Russell
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About the artist

Tom Russell (born in Los Angeles in either 1947 or 1948) is an American singer-songwriter from California, currently living in El Paso, Texas. His music incorporates elements of folk, traditional country & western, border and cowboy music of the American West. Russell's songs have been recorded by artists such as Johnny Cash, Ian Tyson, Nanci Griffith, Dave Alvin and others. In addition to his music, he is also an artist and published author. In the 1980s Russell made four albums credited to the Tom Russell Band.

Top songs

  1. Criminology
  2. Tonight We Ride
  3. Box of Visions
  4. Manzanar
  5. Annette
  6. Blood Oranges
  7. Stealing Electricity
  8. Hong Kong Boy
  9. East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam
  10. The Extra Mile
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  1. Coney Island Moon
  2. Wedding Dress Mary
  3. Navajo Rug
  4. The Man From God Knows Where
  5. Nina Simone
  6. Gallo del Cielo
  7. Santa Ana Wind
  8. Mississippi River Runnin' Backwards
  9. Mesabi
  10. Veteran's Day
  11. Finding You
  12. St. Olav's Gate
  13. Love Abides
  14. Angel Of Lyon
  15. The Sky Above, the Mud Below
  16. The Most Dangerous Woman In America
  17. Crosses Of San Carlos
  18. Blue Wing
  19. Guadalupe
  20. The Pugilist At 59
  21. Outbound Plane
  22. Don't Look Down
  23. Bacon Rind, Chief Seattle, The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
  24. American Rivers
  25. Who's Gonna Build Your Wall?
  26. Seven Curses
  27. Darkness Visible
  28. Out In California
  29. Throwin' Horseshoes At The Moon
  30. Grapevine
  31. El Paso
  32. All This Way For The Short Ride
  33. When The Legends Die
  34. The Ballad Of Edward Abbey
  35. The Angel of Lyon
  36. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
  37. U.S. Steel
  38. Touch of Evil
  39. Sterling Hayden
  40. When Sinatra Played Juarez
  41. California Snow
  42. Bus Station
  43. Ash Wednesday
  44. The Man From God Knows Where, Pt. 1
  45. Down the Rio Grande
  46. No Telling
  47. Rider On An Orphan Train
  48. Bucking Horse Moon
  49. Roll the Credits, Johnny
  50. Haley's Comet
  51. Big Water
  52. Furious Love (For Liz)
  53. Acres Of Corn
  54. The Rose of the San Joaquin
  55. Jai Alai
  56. October in the Railroad Earth
  57. Goodnight, Juarez
  58. Wayfarin' Stranger
  59. A Land Called "Way Out There"
  60. When Irish Girls Grow Up
  61. Walkin' On the Moon
  62. Woodrow
  63. Spanish Burgundy
  64. Beyond the Blues
  65. Sitting Bull In Venice
  66. Home Before Dark
  67. Beautiful Trouble
  68. East Texas Red
  69. Old America
  70. Patrick Russel
  71. The Dreamin'
  72. Hills of Old Juarez
  73. Pilgrim Land
  74. Old Blue
  75. The Sound of One Heart Breaking
  76. Heart Within A Heart
  77. Casey Jones
  78. Wild Geese
  79. Where the Dream Begins
  80. K.C. Violin
  81. The Death Of Jimmy Martin
  82. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
  83. Little Blue Horse
  84. And God Created Border Towns
  85. Muhammad Ali
  86. Stolen Children
  87. It Goes Away
  88. The Lonesome Death of Ukulele Ike
  89. Four Chambered Heart
  90. Van Ronk

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