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Book by Songwriter/Singer Tom Russell

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:34 pm
by Spock
Tom Russell is a fan of the old weird America.

Even SSS might like this-even though it was brought to my attention by the Sons of the Pioneers.

https://frontierpartisans.com/20865/bad-trouble-ensues/
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Tom Russell, one of the great American singer-songwriters, done wrote a book. Against The Blood.

>>>>"“A few words on the saga: Welcome to 1953. A Pima Indian and a young cowboy songwriter are driving across the Great Western Deserts on an odyssey to pick up a load of saddles… discussing Western history in a dying film era when there were 100,00 horses in the L.A Basin.

A coming of age, behind the barns saga, in an America soon to be altered by color TV, corn flake commercials, freeways, and rock and roll. Bad trouble ensues.

Hold Fast, dear reader. Hang and rattle.”
— Tom Russell
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Order form from Frontera Records embedded in the Frontier Partisans post.

I am especially drawn to the closing of the horse age.

As I wrote once in a riff on past lives taking off on Patton's "Through a Glass Darkly."

"There is something missing in this time and it took me a while to figure it out. The horses are gone and things just aren't the same without them."

Re: Book by Songwriter/Singer Tom Russell

Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:09 am
by Spock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RAdK7o ... T&index=23

Link to Russell's song on "Old America" focused on Los Angeles.

Then a song about a trip to Morocco that goes horribly wrong. Probably the rawest, most violent song out there. Don't say I didn't warn you.

"Blood Oranges"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ha_4kpT3IU

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If anybody is interested-Jim at Frontier Partisans does a monthly roundup of music/movies/TV/books/crafts and whatever else catches his fancy that he calls "Working the Trapline"

https://frontierpartisans.com/20657/wor ... mber-2020/