Tom Russell - Blood and Candle Smoke

With a career stretching back nearly four decades, and a catalog of more than 20 albums, Tom Russell is already considered one of the great singer/songwriters of our time. But his newest album, BLOOD AND CANDLE SMOKE, recorded in Tucson with members of the Tex-Mex indie-rock band Calexico, takes his work to another level entirely with tremendous songwriting and a new, contemporary spark. The consummate storyteller, Russell has amassed a devoted following that cherishes his vivid, novelistic tales evoking the spirit of the American experience in tightly constructed, panoramic vignettes. Among his most ardent fans are fellow artists Johnny Cash, Doug Sahm, k.d. lang, Ramblin Jack Elliott, Iris Dement, Dave Alvin, Joe Ely, Ian Tyson, Nanci Griffith, and Guy Clark have all recorded Toms songs.

1) East of 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 Most Dangerous Woman in America
9) Don't Look Down
10) Guadalupe
11) American Rivers
12) Darkness Visible