ISSUE NO. 8 FALL 2002

HERE’S MUD IN YOUR EYE FROM TOM RUSSELL & CO.

Will my sins outlive me? With a gun at my head, I was forced to bless this rarities project, Museum of Memories. The money will go to keep the website rolling and will also keep those gig cards coming out to you. This is not the “next” Tom Russell album of new material. I hope to record that one in December and have it out by April of next year—working title: Unredeemed or What I Did After I Was Released From the Asylum. Or maybe just Tales of Ordinary Madness. Thanks to Ed Becker and John Yuelkenbeck for hanging in there and putting this together. I am not a good critic of my own stuff. I am always thinking up the next record, rhyme, and story. I hope it entertains you—thanks for helping keep the website alive. See you down the road.

El Paso, 8/02

aught somewhere between ’em C Thirty years of rarities and outtakes from Dark Angel

It’s the best disc Tom Russell never him “Gallo del Cielo” in my cab at 4 A.M. 1989 – Mineral Wells. Love that town released! A limited edition compilation and he hired us to open shows. This was and the old Baker Hotel. The Baker has of incredible songs, all appearing for the ’s and my first live gig been boarded up, but the Crazy Water is first time on CD, most for the first time together. He’s playing the tiple, a South an old age home. You can have the hotel for anywhere. Possibly even a bonus track! American instrument. I recall consuming free if you put in a sprinkler system. Sang Not sold in stores. Offered exclusively quite a bit of Jack Daniels to bolster my it with Katy on Long Way Around. through us here at Dark Angel while courage since I had not performed in two I wrote a screenplay treatment of this with supplies last. Destined to be the holiday years. Andrew was worried. . gift this year. 1985 – La Galué (The Glutton). The 1990 – The Heart. Written with From Tom’s early band Mule Train, true, sordid life of Moulin Rouge dancer Greg Trooper. Has been recorded by the (Patricia) Hardin & Russell years, the La Galué who appears in one of Toulouse- Sarah Elizabeth Campbell and Lucy Tom Russell Band, and on through to a Lautrec’s paintings. All the facts are true. Kaplanski. I sang this with Greg in new song recorded live on his current Don’t try any of this at home. I was hoping this year. Not a bad song. tour—it’s all here.We asked Tom to jot for a Serge Gainsbourg cover or perhaps 1991 – Big Fool. Written with Katy some track-by-track notes for us: Charles Aznavour. Moffatt, she’s singing harmony. Probably 1972 – Strung Out (Like The 1986 – Shut Out the Light. Rare in Switzerland on one of those long, wine- Tightest Wire On A Frozen Barbed Springsteen cover. There was one line I filled evenings in Buchs—before Cuno Wire Fence). One of the first songs I could not understand, so I blurted out hung himself in our mountaintop hotel. wrote as a member of “Skid Row’s Finest something like “a John Deere Minor Damn, Cuno, your took it all too seriously. Band,” Mule Train, in , B.C. It stands.” Whatever that means. 1993 – 10 Cent Lemonade. Wrote owes a little to Commander Cody’s style, 1987 – Can’t Keep No Liquor. this with a Nashville writer, Alan Rhody. and to my working six sets a night in a Sounds like an attempt to write like John Trying to write something commercial. topless bar on skid row. Financed by a Prine. I only sang it once live. I guess I 1993 – Biggest Bordertown. well known “porn king” and put on 500 of was feeling guilty that I usually drank up Written with Dylan’s old protégé Bobby his jukeboxes. Promptly removed by all the wine and vodka around the Neuwirth. He told me anyone could Mothers Against Drugs and Drunk “Bunker,” my storefront in Brooklyn. survive New York if they understood it Driving. So the 500 copies rotted in a Early alt country. was just a big ole bordertown. Under- Chinese warehouse. Until now. Enjoy. 1988 – Chinatown in the Rain. I standing New York prepared me for 1974 – Shipwreck Kelly. From one wrote “Hurricane Season” and this song Juarez. of Patricia Hardin and my demos in 1974. one night quite blasted on vodka. I sang it 1995 – Roddy McCorley. Dredged Don MacPherson, my old friend and into a old four-track machine. Sounds like up for St. Paddy’s day in St. Louis. I first drummer, is on both these first two tracks. Fats Kaplin on the accordion. Influenced heard this old IRA song done by the I had moved to Austin by this time, but we by an earlier trip to the Yucatan in Mexico Kingston Trio and Clancy Brothers. drove back to Vancouver to record this on where we ran into a lot of “Jackie 1995 – Hank and Audrey. Another some grant money. Alvin ‘Shipwreck’ Spragues,” gringos who had disappeared co-write. Written for George Kelly was a flagpole sitter in the 1920s. into the jungle years ago—living off their Jones and Tammy Wynette. No sale. 1981 – Cross of Guadalupe. I have wits or their inheritances. Graham Green 1996 – Closin’ Sunny’s Diner. no idea what this song is about, except that characters. The lawless roads! Written about the place where I used to it’s an early attempt at a drug running 1988 – Amelia’s Railroad Flat. Katy eat breakfast in Brooklyn. Sunny had his ballad. What is notable is that its from a Moffatt still opens her sets with this one. hand blown off in the war. Ebbets Field live Lone Star Cafe show in NYC, opening Can’t recall writing it. Influenced by was torn down long ago. I was in L.A. for , the cheap wine and beautiful women in long when the Dodgers came to town. A few lyricist I had picked up in a cab. I sang ago countries of the heart. continued on back P.O. BOX 16083 SHAWNEE, KANSAS 66203-6083 U.S. CHARGE CARD ORDERS by PHONE or FAX: 1-800-327-5264 WEB PAGE tomrussell.com • E-MAIL [email protected] Do we have your e-mail address in our database?

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