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Tom Russell

Thomas George "Tom" Russell (born March 5, 1947/1948[dubious – discuss]) is an American singer-songwriter. Although most strongly identified with the Texas Country music tradition, his music also incorporates elements of folk, Tex-Mex, and the cowboy music of the American West. Many of his songs have been recorded by other artists, including Johnny Cash, k.d. lang, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Jason Boland, Nanci Griffith, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Iris Dement, Dave Alvin, and Suzy Bogguss. Tom has also done collaborative work with renowned cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski. They have worked together on a few songs which have appeared in Tom's works over the years.

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Song	Album	Duration
A Bowl of Red	Heart on a Sleeve 1984	2:57
A Touch of Evil	Borderland 2001
Acres of Corn	The Man from God Knows Where 1999	3:44
Acres of Corn	Wounded Heart of America 2007	3:46
Alkali	Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection 1997	3:18
Alkali	The Early Years (1975-79) 1994	4:18
Alkali	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	2:58
All This Way for the Short Ride	Elko! A Cowboy's Gathering 2005	3:39
All This Way for the Short Ride	Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 2004	3:36
Benediction: Edward Abbey	Hotwalker	3:25
Beyond the Blues	The Long Way Around (Acoustic Collection) 1997	3:51
Beyond the Blues	Beyond St. Olav's Gate (1979-1992) 1994	3:40
Beyond the Blues	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	3:49
Beyond the Blues	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	3:14
Beyond the Blues	Hurricane Season 1991	3:40
Beyond the Blues	American Music: The Hightone Records Story [Box Set] 2006	3:50
Black Pearl	Beyond St. Olav's Gate (1979-1992) 1994	3:41
Black Pearl	Hurricane Season 1991	3:41
Blue Wing	Beyond St. Olav's Gate (1979-1992) 1994	3:59
Blue Wing	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	3:58
Blue Wing	Wounded Heart of America 2007	3:45
Blue Wing	Unknown Album	4:01
Bucking Horse Moon	Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 2004	4:01
Bucking Horse Moon	The Western Years 2014	4:03
Bucking Horse Moon	Unknown Album	4:03
California Snow	Folkscene Collection, Vol. 2 1999	4:43
California Snow	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	4:52
California Snow	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	4:46
California Snow	Borderland 2001	4:53
California Snow	The Western Years 2014	4:54
Canadian Whiskey	Wounded Heart of America 2007	3:01
Canadian Whisky	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	2:39
Canadian Whisky	Heart on a Sleeve 1984	2:58
Chocolate Cigarettes	Hillbilly Voodoo 1993	4:01
Chocolate Cigarettes	Hilly Voodoo & Cowboy Mambo 2015	4:03
Chocolate Cigarettes	Hurricane Season 1991	4:34
Chocolate Cigarettes	Unknown Album	4:01
Claude Dallas	Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection 1997	5:40
Claude Dallas	Cowboy Real 1991	5:31
Claude Dallas	The Western Years 2014	5:42
Down the Rio Grande	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	5:37
Down the Rio Grande	Borderland 2001	5:38
Down the Rio Grande	Unknown Album	5:37
Down the Rio Grande (aka Rio Grande)	The Western Years 2014	5:39
East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam	Unknown Album	7:22
East Texas Red	Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 2004	5:01
East Texas Red	The Western Years 2014	5:03
El Gallo Del Cielo [Live]	The Western Years 2014	7:01
El Gallo del Cielo	Tulare Dust: A Songwriters' Tribute to Merle Haggard 1994	6:30
El Paso	Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 2004	5:38
El Paso	The Western Years 2014	5:40
Gallo Del Cielo	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	6:19
Gallo Del Cielo	Wounded Heart of America 2007	7:07
Gallo del Cielo	Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection 1997	6:33
Gallo del Cielo	The Rose of Roscrae 2015	1:33
Gallo del Cielo	Beyond St. Olav's Gate (1979-1992) 1994	6:02
Gallo del Cielo	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	5:59
Gallo del Cielo	Cowboy Real 1991	5:58
Gallo del Cielo	Heart on a Sleeve 1984	6:46
Gallo del Cielo	Raw Vision: The Tom Russell Band 1984-1994 2005	5:59
Gallo del Cielo	Poor Man's Dream 1990	6:05
Gallo del Cielo	Unknown Album	7:06
Gallo del Cielo [Live]	The Long Way Around (Acoustic Collection) 1997	6:28
Guadalupe	The Essential Gretchen Peters 2016	5:40
Guadalupe	Blood and Candle Smoke 2009	6:05
Guadalupe	One to the Heart, One to the Head 2008	5:39
Guadalupe	Unknown Album	5:39
Gulf Coast Highway	Modern Art 2003	2:37
Gulf Coast Highway	The Western Years 2014	2:39
Gulf Coast Highway	Unknown Album	2:39
Haley's Comet	Beyond St. Olav's Gate (1979-1992) 1994	3:54
Haley's Comet	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	3:26
Haley's Comet	Wounded Heart of America 2007	4:14
Haley's Comet	Hurricane Season 1991	3:53
Haley's Comet [Live]	The Long Way Around (Acoustic Collection) 1997	3:41
Hills of Old Juarez	Borderland 2001	4:01
Hills of Old Juarez	The Western Years 2014	4:03
Jack Johnson	Hillbilly Voodoo 1993	3:33
Jack Johnson	Hilly Voodoo & Cowboy Mambo 2015	3:35
Jack Johnson	Hurricane Season 1991	2:57
Jack Johnson	Unknown Album	3:33
Kid from Spavinaw	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	5:27
Kid from Spavinaw	Unknown Album	5:27
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts	Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 2004	9:44
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts	The Western Years 2014	9:46
Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts	Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 2004	9:44
Love Abides	The Man from God Knows Where 1999	4:06
Love Abides	Mesabi 2011	3:48
Love Abides	Unknown Album	4:06
Manzanar	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	5:17
Manzanar	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	4:55
Manzanar	Wounded Heart of America 2007	4:44
Manzanar	Box of Visions 1992	5:16
Manzanar	Unknown Album	5:16
Mississippi River Runnin' Backwards	Unknown Album	7:20
Navajo Rug	Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection 1997	3:35
Navajo Rug	Beyond St. Olav's Gate (1979-1992) 1994	4:08
Navajo Rug	International Singer/Songwriter Festival, Frutigen 1994
Navajo Rug	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	3:50
Navajo Rug	Monsters of Folk 1998	3:33
Navajo Rug	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	3:33
Navajo Rug	Wounded Heart of America 2007	3:01
Navajo Rug	Hightone Records: 15 Years of American Music 1999	3:35
Navajo Rug	15 Years of American Music	3:35
Navajo Rug	Cowboy Real 1991	4:14
Navajo Rug	20 Years of Stony Plain 1996	4:10
Navajo Rug	Unknown Album	4:14
Old Blue	Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 2004	5:30
Old Blue	The Western Years 2014	5:31
Outbound Plane	The Long Way Around (Acoustic Collection) 1997	2:49
Outbound Plane	Beyond St. Olav's Gate (1979-1992) 1994	2:48
Outbound Plane	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	2:50
Outbound Plane	Wounded Heart of America 2007	2:55
Rayburn Crane	Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection 1997	2:33
Rayburn Crane	Cowboy Real 1991	2:28
Rayburn Crane	Unknown Album	2:28
Seven Curses	Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 2004	5:01
Seven Curses	The Western Years 2014	5:02
Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son	The Rose of the San Joaquin 1995	2:37
Sonora's Death Row	Cowboy Real 1991	4:10
South Coast	Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection 1997	6:11
Spanish Burgundy	The Long Way Around (Acoustic Collection) 1997	3:04
Spanish Burgundy	Unknown Album	3:04
St. Olav's Gate	The Long Way Around (Acoustic Collection) 1997	3:11
St. Olav's Gate	Beyond St. Olav's Gate (1979-1992) 1994	3:30
St. Olav's Gate	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	3:12
St. Olav's Gate	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	3:13
St. Olav's Gate	Wounded Heart of America 2007	4:29
St. Olav's Gate	Heart on a Sleeve 1984	3:33
Stealing Electricity	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	3:07
Stealing Electricity	Wounded Heart of America 2007	2:19
Stealing Electricity	Love & Fear 2006	3:07
Stealing Electricity	The Western Years 2014	3:09
Stealing Electricity	Love and Fear 2006	3:07
Stealing Electricity	Unknown Album	2:18
The Angel of Lyon	Box of Visions 1992	5:18
The Angel of Lyon [Live]	The Long Way Around (Acoustic Collection) 1997	6:00
The Angel of Lyon [Live]	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	6:02
The Ballad of Edward Abbey	Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 2004	4:36
The Dutchman	Modern Art 2003	4:26
The Evangeline Hotel	Hurricane Season 1991	3:36
The Hills of Old Juarez	Borderland 2001
The Kid From Spavinaw	Modern Art 2003	5:27
The Man from God Knows Where	The Man from God Knows Where 1999	2:47
The Man from God Knows Where	Unknown Album	2:47
The Next Thing Smokin'	Borderland 2001	3:49
The Next Thing Smokin'	Unknown Album	3:48
The Road It Gives, the Road It Takes Away	Borderland 2001	3:50
The Road It Gives, the Road It Takes Away	Unknown Album	3:50
The Rose of the San Joaquin	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	2:53
The Rose of the San Joaquin	The Rose of the San Joaquin 1995	2:51
The Rose of the San Joaquin	Unknown Album	2:51
The Sky Above, The Mud Below	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	6:40
The Sky Above, the Mud Below	Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection 1997	6:40
The Sky Above, the Mud Below	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	6:29
The Sky Above, the Mud Below	The Rose of the San Joaquin 1995	5:51
The Sky Above, the Mud Below	Wounded Heart of America 2007	6:15
The Sky Above, the Mud Below	Unknown Album	5:50
The Sky Above,the Mud Below	Wounded Heart of America 2007	6:15
Tonight We Ride	Amercian Music: The Hightone Records Story [Sampler] 2006	3:22
Tonight We Ride	American Music: The Hightone Records Story [Box Set] 2006	3:22
Tonight We Ride	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	3:26
Tonight We Ride	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	2:36
Tonight We Ride	Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs 2004	3:26
Tonight We Ride	The Western Years 2014	3:28
Tonight We Ride	Tom Russell 2004	3:06
Tonight We Ride [DVD]	Hearts on the Line [DVD] 2005
Touch of Evil	Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology 2008	5:42
Touch of Evil	Borderland 2001	5:43
Touch of Evil	Unknown Album	5:42
U.S. Steel	The Long Way Around (Acoustic Collection) 1997	4:05
U.S. Steel	Beyond St. Olav's Gate (1979-1992) 1994	4:23
U.S. Steel	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	4:02
Walkin' On the Moon	Wounded Heart of America 2007	3:32
Walkin' On the Moon	The Long Way Around (Acoustic Collection) 1997	3:49
Walkin' on the Moon	Old Songs Yet to Sing 2018	3:25
Walkin' on the Moon	Up Close and Personal 2005	3:45
Walkin' on the Moon	The Folkscene Collection, Vol. 3 2001	4:17
Walking On The Moon	Playin' Fool: Live In Holland 2008	4:23
Walking on the Moon	The Long Way Around (Acoustic Collection) 1997	3:49
Walking on the Moon	Beyond St. Olav's Gate (1979-1992) 1994	3:46
Walking on the Moon	Tulare Dust: A Songwriters' Tribute to Merle Haggard 1994	0:37
Wayfarin' Stranger [Passage of Time][Instrumental]	The Man from God Knows Where 1999	1:05
When Sinatra Played Juarez	Borderland 2001	3:37
When Sinatra Played Juarez	HighTone Anthology: Rockin from the Roots 2007	3:35
When Sinatra Played Juarez	Unknown Album	3:37
Where the Dream Begins	Borderland 2001	4:42
Where the Dream Begins	Unknown Album	4:41
Who's Gonna Build Your Wall	Unknown Album
Winnipeg	Hurricane Season 1991	3:49

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