Tom Russell October 9, 2009

Tom Russell came originally from Los Angeles and now lives in El Paso. He sketched both cities through the dual lenses of Orson Welles's movie camera and a dying relationship in the masterpiece "Touch of Evil." Russell, says Ark volunteer George Allen, "can tell a story about anything." He's written vivid historical songs, ambitious portraits of love gone wrong, big Nashville hits, slices of barroom gloom, anthems of social commentary, a career-making song about a cockfight -- you name it! Tom recently released a new album, "Blood and Candle Smoke." The Russell faithful have heard amazing songs from the album in concert -- like "Criminology," a one-of-a-kind account of all the times Tom has looked down the wrong end of a gun, beginning with an episode in Nigeria in 1971. Come and check out the inimitable Tom Russell's latest thoughts in full!

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