tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post6451334607438490715..comments2023-11-03T03:46:35.665-07:00Comments on Tom Russell: Notes from the Borderland: Mesabi - series of dreams #13Tom Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03134977181127153226noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-90686674816475256572011-02-08T16:00:44.805-08:002011-02-08T16:00:44.805-08:00... based on this story?
http://www.mlive.com/new...... based on this story?<br /><br />http://www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2011/02/california_man_killed_by_armed.htmlTexoramahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931055788237826591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-73112117053643573772011-02-08T16:00:17.064-08:002011-02-08T16:00:17.064-08:00Mr. Russell: How about a new verse to "Gallo ...Mr. Russell: How about a new verse to "Gallo del Cielo"?Texoramahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931055788237826591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-82761956481349060272011-02-08T13:00:43.260-08:002011-02-08T13:00:43.260-08:00"The purpose of art is not the release of a m..."The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity" - Glenn GouldHomesick Clarence Jenningshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10646725682530016499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-21856109115779181972011-02-06T07:46:23.139-08:002011-02-06T07:46:23.139-08:00If Dylan inspired Tom Russell, I say outstanding.
...If Dylan inspired Tom Russell, I say outstanding.<br /> However, if only Dylan would take his live performance cues from Tom............I guess we settle on the recordings: Blood On The Tracks, Nashville Skyline and so on.<br /> Guess I'll listen to "Hotwalker" and cleanse the palate.......different perspective and such.....thoughts and ideas presented in a straight forward manner....if one is perceptive.guildedsinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02742733337776022200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-45965028695505418782011-02-04T10:24:35.727-08:002011-02-04T10:24:35.727-08:00Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jessie Winchester, Jimmy Web...Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jessie Winchester, Jimmy Webb, Dion (yeah, Dion!), David Olney, Chris Smither, Dave Alvin, Malcolm Holcombe, John Hiatt, you Tom Russell, Mickey Newbury (RIP), and others that will come to me after I post this. Mostly "mature" artists and true to their muse - too infrequently under appreciated by the (brainless) masses - but the ones whose works will endure and be appreciated appropriately only as time passes. If that is in the realm of nostalgia, I want a long term lease in a small efficiency there. <br />As a good friend ( nameless here, but who knows who he <br />is) often advised me, "Johnny, fuck 'em" and their attitudes.Johnny Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13768858017897026578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-87472562933304231982011-01-30T19:29:57.166-08:002011-01-30T19:29:57.166-08:00Corrections and further delineations ...
Visited ...Corrections and further delineations ...<br /><br />Visited Morgan Earps ( Assasinated brother of Wyatt and U.S. Marshall as well ) gravesite in Colton, CA where it is quite possible that no one in Colton even knows that he is there. I am still trying to catch up with the past. Lost in the classics. The tried and true, but well aware that they never held that honor in their inception. Never throw the baby out with the bath water. Have we sucked it dry ( the future)? Feels like it at times. Tom, you move as an omnipresent traveler, and fortunate for us, deliver the goods both antique and avant garde. Stopped on the way out of Colton to pay respects to The California Theatre in San Bernadiino and the ghost of Will Rogers ...<br /><br />-saddle tramp <br />Via: NPR's " Soundprint " and poems buried with the deadSaddle Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15640646036914910941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-53546460630135317852011-01-30T18:45:52.293-08:002011-01-30T18:45:52.293-08:00On the road with Dylan ...
Just finished up my do...On the road with Dylan ...<br /><br />Just finished up my double dose of Dylan with his archive rebroadcast of " Theme Time Radio ". Doctors and Danger respectively, but not themed together. It is a privilege to be able to listen to Dylan ( audibly perceptive ) dilineate lifetimes of wonderfully esoteric treasures of musical and human wisdom. The fresh version comes out weekly, as I wish you could do Tom. I hear Dylan cut a deal for six more books. Much like yourself Tom, he never slows down. <br /><br />Getting into NPR's " On The Media " where the topic is newspapers. Rupert, they opine is the only one today with any real money to spend. Make your own conclusions.<br /><br />Tom, thanks for the hint on your upcoming release. You are one of the rare few from which I will buy sight unseen.<br />Until then another Buk quote ...<br /><br /><br />" All I need now is what I needed then: a desk lamp, the typer, the bottle, the radio, classical music, and this room<br />on fire ".<br /> - Hanging on The Huntington Library wall<br /> <br /><br />stVIA: Tonopah, AZ leaving LA rain behind me ...Saddle Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15640646036914910941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-46359578452807834242011-01-30T14:35:41.960-08:002011-01-30T14:35:41.960-08:00Great post Tom, as they all are. I like the Babe ...Great post Tom, as they all are. I like the Babe Ruth reference. Over the years I have been present when conversations turned to golf and taken aback when people would say things to tear Tiger Woods down and how they want to see someone else win and so on. I would always ask if they were alive in Ruth's heyday would they say the same things? We are lucky to be living to witness Dylan and when we are old and whittling on the front porch we will tell anyone who will listen what we saw. They won't care to hear about Tiger's indescetions and Dylan's vocal shortcomings. They will be impressed with the greatness and that we were able to see, hear, and experience these things first hand and in real time.Bill Laveryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528234936532189664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-77321183832252575352011-01-30T11:09:39.347-08:002011-01-30T11:09:39.347-08:00Keith Richards wrote about this whole age-criticis...Keith Richards wrote about this whole age-criticism thing to the effect that, if the Rolling Stones were black blues guys, everybody would be crying Right On! that they were still on stage in their dotage. White rockers are supposed to go away. As you might imagine, Keef's response was basically, fuck em.<br /><br />Rupert Murdoch owns WSJ. He's a nasty, slimy tabloid bottom feeder and his publications and programing reflects that. Consider the source and blow it off.<br /><br />I was just thinking a couple of days ago about the great flowering of classical composition in the 19th Century and asked the same question: What happened? At the risk of being portentious (if not pretentious), maybe the arts are the canary in the mine for a civilization.Europe reached its cultural pinnacle in the 19th Century and committed suicide in the 20th. Maybe the great creative outpouring of the American popular song in the American Century represented that kind of cultural pinnacle. If so, we can all be glad we were here for it — and tremble at the future.editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18298399110078317876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-74343057488986833742011-01-29T21:03:07.384-08:002011-01-29T21:03:07.384-08:00I saw Dylan several months ago, and it was the wor...I saw Dylan several months ago, and it was the worst concert I ever went to, I am 59 years old, and appreciate all Dylan has done and stood for over these many years, but his great lyrics are meaningless if you can't understand the words. The whole feeling of the concert was he just wanted to get it over with, a passionless, hurried performance. A major disappointment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-30013316840942420442011-01-29T12:45:23.566-08:002011-01-29T12:45:23.566-08:00hello Tom.
thanks for speaking out for mister bob....hello Tom.<br />thanks for speaking out for mister bob. we all owe him more than we could ever pay him back on sooo many levels.<br />let me also tell YOU thanks for your inspiration-<br />love your work .<br />your TRAMPS AND HAWKERS has often almost moved me to tears.drifterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06397210691585186452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-42476784607619405192011-01-29T11:25:43.867-08:002011-01-29T11:25:43.867-08:00Of course the great irony is that most folks emplo...Of course the great irony is that most folks employed by the Wall St Journal want to force the rest of us to work into our 70s before being eligible to receive Social Security benefits.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00253142788130289329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-67373792046545347712011-01-28T20:35:55.449-08:002011-01-28T20:35:55.449-08:00...a current generation of writers who will never ...<i>...a current generation of writers who will never measure up. There is nothing significant for music journalists to write about...</i><br /><br />I once wrote on my blog about the reason I don't listen to new music any more. Attributing it to bad hearing..., I may have to rethink that.<br /><br />http://scottrthequillayutecowboy.blogspot.com/2010/03/growing-old-with-jackson-browne.html<br /><br />Anyway..., it's been great to discover another great songwriter that I can hear in you..., and have been anxious to hear and see you at the Treehouse on Bainbridge Island in about 10 days. <br /><br />Oh..., one complaint..., am I really going to have to wait until this fall for the new material?Scott R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17353655165012542492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632029549152237270.post-12299263199229800382011-01-28T16:24:25.482-08:002011-01-28T16:24:25.482-08:00Thank you, fantastic! Somebody needed to speak up ...Thank you, fantastic! Somebody needed to speak up for Bob Dylan. I'm glad it was a voice with reason and depth. How many artist have made a living off Dylan's songs? Where is their voice?turn me loose, set me freehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06068843132091220460noreply@blogger.com