Cat No:
PRPCD088
Release Date: 12 September 2011
Label: Proper Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 805520030885
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Description
A thread runs through its songs, a zigzagging but determinedly solid line that connects the perilous bordertown of Juarez, Mexico to the real and faux glitz of L.A. and the bleak iron range of Minnesota—the Mesabi of the album's title. The broad landscapes created by Tom Russell for Mesabi are inhabited by characters we all know—Bob Dylan, James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor—and some we may not: the now-obscure, once well-known singer Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards, the tragic Disney child star Jimmy Driscoll and the character actor Sterling Hayden. It's a logical progression from Russell's last album, 2009's Blood and Candle Smoke, yet it's like no other album Russell has made in his nearly four decades as a recording artist.
Co-produced by Russell and keyboardist Barry Walsh, and recorded in several different studios in Tucson, Texas, Nashville and Los Angeles, Mesabi is the 26th album from an artist whose songs have been recorded by such icons as Johnny Cash, Dave Van Ronk, Jerry Jeff Walker, Doug Sahm and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, among others. No less than Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the legendary poet, has said that he shares "a great affinity with Tom Russell's songs, for he is writing out of the wounded heart of America."
Also available: Blood And Candle Smoke (PRPCD049)
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Tracklisting
- 1. Mesabi
- 2. When The Legends Die
- 3. Farewell Never Never Land
- 4. The Lonesome Death of Ukulele Ike
- 5. Sterling Hayden
- 6. Furious Love (For Liz)
- 7. A Land Called “Way Out There”
- 8. Roll the Credits Johnny
- 9. Heart Within a Heart
- 10. And God Created Bordertowns
- 11. Goodnight Juarez
- 12. Jai Alai
- 13. Love Abides
- 14. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Bonus Track)
- 15. The Road To Nowhere (Bonus Track)
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Angel Delight
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October In The Railroad Earth
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Wounded Heart Of America
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Folk Hotel
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Play One More: The Songs Of Ian & Sylvia
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