Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Tom Russell Title: Borderland Members Wishing: 3 Total Copies: 0 Label: Hightone Records Release Date: 4/17/2001 Genres: Country, Folk, Pop Styles: Americana, Classic Country, Today's Country, Traditional Folk, Contemporary Folk, Singer-Songwriters Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 012928813228, 001292881322, 012928813228 |
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Borderland's guitar and accordion evoke the cantinas of the Texas-Mexico border, but most of the songs here concern what the album-opening "Touch of Evil" calls "the borderline between a woman and a man." Raised in Cali... more » |
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Amazon.com Borderland's guitar and accordion evoke the cantinas of the Texas-Mexico border, but most of the songs here concern what the album-opening "Touch of Evil" calls "the borderline between a woman and a man." Raised in California, veteran troubadour Tom Russell moved a few years ago to the corner of Texas where El Paso meets Juarez, following his songwriting muse into territory that he probes to richly evocative effect throughout these narratives. Though his voice tends toward the wooden ("Hills of Old Juarez" could pass as a Johnny Cash demo) and his melodies too often provide the barest support for his storylines, the help of producer Gurf Morlix, accordionist Joel Guzman, keyboardist Ian McLagan, and singers Eliza Gilkyson and Jimmy LaFave add warmth and range. Highlights extend from the bittersweet balladry of "Where the Dream Begins" to the melodic lilt of "Let It Go," with Dave Alvin, Katy Moffatt, and Russell's longtime guitarist Andrew Hardin collaborating on other material. --Don McLeese Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsTom Russell is always the best naima | Italy | 08/02/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "I was impatiently expecting the release of Borderland. The day I bought it was a rainy and grey day. I immediately played it; the notes of "Touch of evil" filled the room, the sound of the accordion and his warm voice quickly surrounded me and transformed the day. I couldn't help falling in love with this CD.All the songs are wonderful, the stories are real, you can figure the movie in your head while he suggests the plot. His voice caresses you. I think this album is somewhat more intimate than others, there's something subtle in the atmospheres he evokes, anyway it is pure Tom Russell 18K. The theme of the border, recurring in most of his works, here is a perfect background; sometimes the border is the divide between one world and another, between north and south, poor and rich, light and darkness, the border is that shade of grey that links, or divide, black and white. All songs are beautiful, but my favourite are "Where the dream begins" "Down the Rio Grande" and Dave Alvin's "California snow" I like very much the cover too." Great stories, okay songs Jerome Clark | Canby, Minnesota | 04/23/2001 (3 out of 5 stars) "Borderland is a good, but never a great, album. Perhaps it can't help being a letdown after the amazingly ambitious, gratifyingly realized Man from God Knows Where, in its own way the equal of its more-or-less inspiration, Paul Simon's much more famous Graceland. Borderland highlights Russell's strengths and weaknesses as a singer-songwriter: an exceptional storytelling talent on one side, mostly pedestrian melodies on the other. There certainly is nothing here to match such early, and superior, Russell works as "U.S. Steel," "The Road to Bayamon," and (of course) "Gallo De Cielo." Sometimes criticized for sounding too much like Ian Tyson for his own good, at times Russell here recalls the John Stewart of three decades ago, especially (though, alas, not exclusively) on "When the Dream Begins" and "Hills of Old Juarez," both of which could have been outtakes from Stewart's Willard album. And yet Russell's talents are undeniable. "Touch of Evil" could have been written only by a real pro. The song brilliantly interweaves deceptively random observations about the classic Orson Welles film with a lover's bitter complaints. Russell effectively locates songs in a place -- usually the Texas-Mexico border, where he resides -- and tells entirely believable stories about the people who live there and the things that happen to them. Gurf Morlix's tasteful, unbusy, sympathetic production is an unfailing pleasure. If there are no masterpieces, there are no bad songs, either." Haunting Textures of Song Jay Marvin | Chicago , Illinois | 09/14/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "This is quite possibly the spookiest record you may ever hear. Russell has created a landscape of spooky characters, spooky stories, and even spookier songs. The concept of the album is that we all put up borders in our lives and getting over those borders is the real challenge. If you like to cry, laugh, let it all hang out and party, then Tom Russell's "Borderland" is the next CD you should buy. By the way, I painted the album cover. Do you like?"
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