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Archive Home > 2006 > February > 17 > Singing ob the Edge

Singing ob the Edge

Tom Russell still not pulling any punches

By David Jasper / The Bulletin
February 17, 2006

Tom Russell is an anachronism in a Starbucks-studded world.

Born in Los Angeles in 1950, the El Paso-based "noir cowboy" has made a career of writing songs about ruffians, roughnecks and assorted fringe-dwellers. Convention and conventional wisdom: not his long suit.

He is often called....

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