The Gobblers Knob » Tom Russell http://www.thegobblersknob.com Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:10:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Biting Other Blogs: Tom Russell & Kris Kristofferson http://www.thegobblersknob.com/2009/10/biting-other-blogs-tom-russell-kris-kristofferson/ http://www.thegobblersknob.com/2009/10/biting-other-blogs-tom-russell-kris-kristofferson/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:26:22 +0000 Kelly http://www.thegobblersknob.com/?p=2397 Biting Other Blogs is an occasionally occurring feature that will direct your attention to a specific blog post or two that, most likely, I wish I had posted myself. Giving credit where credit is due, I typically wont blab too much, except to encourage you to get up on whatever blog I am highlighting…

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Kris Kristofferson’s new disc, Closer to the Bone (New West) is as great as his 2006 LP, This Old Road and for the same reasons, basically. Sparse, raw and just plain moving. Kristofferson’s grizzled soul oozes from each note, strum and lyric. Here are a few things I have seen lately regarding this gem…

 

 

 

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The new album from folk-troubadour Tom Russell, Blood & Candle Smoke, has been getting rave reviews from the blogosphere. I can’t say that I am quite as high on it as others are, but that’s not to say that I am not rather impressed. Russell’s voice is that of a classic, authoritative story-teller. Who needs a simple, catchy hook when you can have such a beautiful yarn spun right before you. Russell shouldn’t have needed this album and the subsequent praise (including a recent, widely viewed Letterman appearance) to elevate his profile, but elevate it, this album has indeed done. Check out the following pieces that tell you why…

 

 

 

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