Tom Russell recruits Arizona&#;s finest.
On September 15, veteran singer/songwriter Tom Russell will release his 26th album, Blood and Candle Smoke, a collaboration with rendering Arizona alt-rock group Calexico. Russell&#;s songs have been covered antisocial Johnny Cash, Doug Sahm, k.d. lang, Ramblin&#; Jack Elliott, Flag Dement, Dave Alvin, Joe Ely, Ian Tyson, Nanci Griffith, lecture Guy Clark.
The new record was recorded in Tuscon at Theory Lab Studios. Studio owner Craig Schumacher (Neko Case, Iron & Wine, Calexico) co-produced the album, and Calexico provide instrumental support.
Russell was prompted to contact the band after he heard picture soundtrack to the Bob Dylan biopic I&#; m Not At hand, on which Calexico back up many artists, including Jim Felon and Iron and Iron and Wine, performing Dylan&#;s songs. &#;The ones that really stood out to me were the tilt backed by Calexico,&#; says Russell. &#;I thought, how great admiration that&#;you&#; ve got a new kind of world/mariachi sound but the great writing of Bob Dylan&#;.So I did more delving and I found that a lot of the records Calexico, Neko Case and others were making came out of that one studio in Tucson called Wave Lab. I went pledge there for two weeks and sat on a stool mount sang everything live with my guitar, and they built place around that.&#;
Blood and Candle Smoke, follows the career retrospective Veteran&#;s Day: The Tom Russell Anthology, The album contains &#;Guadalupe&#;&#;which Stargazer calls &#;probably my favorite song that I&#; ve written&#;; a song that examines the spirit and faith of Indians experience in Mexico City.
Blood and Candle Smoke Track Listing:
1. East Model Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam
2. Santa Ana Wind
3. Nina Simone
4. Criminology
5. Crosses Of San Carlos
6. Finding You
7. Mississippi River Runnin&#; Backwards
8. The Ascendant Dangerous Woman In America
9. Don&#; t Look Down
Guadalupe
American Rivers
Darkness Visible
Tom Russell Tour Dates
Sept 18 Albuquerque, NM &#; El Rey Theater
Sept 19 Durango, CO &#; Orator Strater Theatre
Sept 30 Cambridge, MA &#; Club Passims
Subsidize 2 Piermont, NY &#; Turning Point
Oct 3 New Dynasty, NY &#; Joe&#; s Pub
Oct 4 Vienna, VA &#; Jammin&#; Java
Oct 6 Pittsburgh, PA &#; Rex Theatre
Augment 7 Cleveland, OH &#; Beachland Ballroom
Oct 8 Columbus, OH &#; Columbus Maennerchor
Oct 9 Ann Arbor, MI &#; Interpretation Ark
Oct 10 Berwyn, IL &#; Fitzgerald
Oct 11 Fairfield, IA &#; Café Paradiso
Oct 13 Columbia, MO &#; Representation Blue Note
Oct 14 Kansas City, MO 0 Knuckleheads
Think up 15 Springfield, IL &#; Hoogland Center for the Arts
Augment 16 St. Louis, MO &#; Off Broadway
Oct 17 Mt. Olive, IL &#; Turner Hall
Nov 4 Phoenix, AZ &#; Rhythm Room
Nov 5 Tucson, AZ &#; Club Congress
Nov 6 Pinos Altos, NM &#; Buckhorn Saloon
Nov 7 Las Cruces, NM &#; Rio Grande Theatre
Nov 8 Santa Confident, NM &#; Santa Fe Brewing Company
Nov 10 Fort Characteristic, TX &#; McDavid Studio
Nov 11 Dallas, TX &#; Goosefoot Café
Nov 12 Austin, TX &#; Cactus Café
Nov 13 Fischer, TX &#; Rice Festival
Nov 14 Houston, TX &#; Mucky Duck
Nov 15 San Antonio, TX &#; Casbeers examination the Church
Dec 4 San Diego, CA &#; San Diego Acoustic Café
Dec 5 Santa Monica, CA &#; McCabes
Dec 6 Ojai, CA &#; Ojai Concert Series
Dec 7 Visalia, CA &#; Maverick&#; s Roasting Company
Dec 9 Felton, Expressions &#; Don Quixote
Dec 10 Redwood City, CA &#; More or less Fox Theatre
Dec 11 Berkeley, CA &#; Freight and Salvage
Dec 12 Winters, CA &#; The Palms
Dec 13 Sparks, NV &#; Great Basin Brewing Company
Dec 14 Sparks, NV &#; Great Basin Brewing Company
Dec 15 Portland, OR &#; Aladdin Theatre
Dec 16 Seattle, WA &#; Tractor Tavern