Barry Walsh's piano record starts the day around here before the carpenters and electricians and tractors roll through.....Barry played with Waylon Jennings and The Boxtops and fashioned an instrumental cd that reminds me of Satie and Eno and a little of Uncle George thrown in....it's available at http://barrywalshmusic.com/ my Uncle George's "In Between Films" cd is still available at www.villagerecords.com
Somebody mentioned the Stones in a comment: I haven't see the Stones movie yet that Scorcese did...but I saw them a year or two in El Paso, as I've said and they kicked my ass. Charlie Watts rocked steady for three hours. The songs and guitar riffs are unmatchable. I just finished a painting called "Keith in the Desert," except it looks more like the devil sitting among agaves and prickley pears. I have to get it out of the house. It'll go cheap. Also did another bukowski and Ramblin Jack Elliott, circa 1953, with his wife staring at him. Saturday morning. No thoughts. Treading artistic water whilst others are engaged in that "awful rowing towards an unknown God." (Anne Sexton.)
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TR . . . As always the master has delivered. Good luck on your (Adobe Jeffers Rock in the Borderland). You could easily dismiss us all to find our own "Adobe Rock". Thanks for glimpses inside of yours. The apprentice would like to comment if you would allow. I appreciated your Anne Sexton quote and your relationship to it and within the context absolutely agree. Unknowable in (entirety) and not unlike (eternity) unprovable. No one has been there yet. Read Sinclair Lewis' opening statement to " Main Street " . . . and do you think there could be other faiths. He also said if fascism ever comes to America it will be " wrapped in a flag, carrying a (cross) ". Back to Anne. If I would be that (small) part rowing the boat and came upon you floundering in the water, I would surely throw you a (line) or two. I would hope you would do the same for me. If however, I was not in time, I am sure you would not end up in a void. That is all that matters. Tom, I suffer fools easier than I do phonies and you are most assuredly [neither]. I prefer my music right out of the ground, right out of the muddy water or falling from the sky. You never fail to deliver and I remain a long time (and one not easily impressed) fan.
I just came up through White Clay, NE , Pine Ridge, SD and Rosebud Sioux Reservation.
Regarding:Indians, Hearts & America
Wounded Knee
Buried Heart
Where Ghost Dance Soldiers, women & children were scattered in the wind while their ancestors stagger through the streets with a legacy that's hope now lies in [Casinos].
Road report (in exile) from
La Crosse, WI (no kidding)
-ST
Thanks Tom, another great recommend... seeing Barry with Gretchen later in the year ..if anyone has doubts about the disc (beautiful music BTW) then you can hear substantial chunks at cdbaby - you won't be sorry!
Uncle George is a terrific listen too, incredibly atmospheric. Along the same lines Charlie Haden did a record with Hank Jones about 15 years ago called Steal Away - just Charlie on the bass, Hank on the piano and some divine music - spirituals, hymns and folk songs
Thanks again Tom, more people need to hear this music
Thanks Tom, another great recommend... seeing Barry with Gretchen later in the year ..if anyone has doubts about the disc (beautiful music BTW) then you can hear substantial chunks at cdbaby - you won't be sorry!
Uncle George is a terrific listen too, incredibly atmospheric. Along the same lines Charlie Haden did a record with Hank Jones about 15 years ago called Steal Away - just Charlie on the bass, Hank on the piano and some divine music - spirituals, hymns and folk songs
Thanks again Tom, more people need to hear this music
Great post. I couldn't find your CDs at Barnes & Noble, which was a surprise, not a shock. You can't find William Gaddis there either, though he won 2 National Book Awards. Then no luck at Best Buy either. So I'm starting my email campaign, to get inventory I'm recommending on the shelves where my friends can buy them. At Pandora.com, when I created a Tom Russell station, Navajo Rug came up immediately. I'll check Jango.com next. See my post at
http://believablelies.blogspot.com
on getting access to artists we like.
Kia ora Tom,
Enjoying your blog from New Zealand, Land of the Long White Cloud. Hard work to find your cd's over here but I have managed to hunt most down, thanks to the online world for that. Have been enjoying your work for years and spreading the word. Kia ora!
Noho ora mai ra,
Robb
Norwegian - Irish connection.
Off topic, and sorry for that, but there doesn't seem to be an email link on the main site.
The details are here. Drop me a line if you're interested, but no chicken songs please .
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