Tom Russell - Hotwalker: Charles Bukowski & A Ballad for Gone
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Artist: Tom RussellEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-03-01
Music Label: Hightone Records
Soundtracks:
- Pilgrim Land
- Old America
- Hotwalker
- Border Lights
- Beat Folk
- Van Ronk
- Bakersfield
- Grapevine
- Woodrow
- Benediction: Edward Abbey
- Honky Jazz
- Swap Meet Jesus
- Bukowski #1
- Harry Partch, Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce
- Bukowski #2 "On the Hustle"
- Bukowski #3
- Requiem
- Coda: Little Jack Horton
- America the Beautiful
Free Music Notes for Hotwalker: Charles Bukowski & A Ballad for Gone
Free Music Review: Pretentious failure, unfortunately
Hit: 1 Stars
It is not difficult to understand why Tom Russell would try to pull off something like this. It is an ambitious synthesis of many of the influences and traditions that has been part of his earlier work, this time moving even further towards bohemian litterature and poetry. Unfortunately it does not even come close to deliver on its ambition. The result is a pretentious and affected collection of ideas that are mostly form rather than content, effect rather than emotion. It is understandable that he wants to move on, but this was a step in the wrong direction and he really did not pull it off. It is an embarrasment to listen to - unfortunately.
Hotwalker: Charles Bukowski & A Ballad for Gone Poster
Veteran troubadour Tom Russell's most conceptually ambitious (and audacious) release to date is less a collection of songs than an intensely personal travelogue through a bohemian America that no longer exists. It's like a postmodern spin on an old-time supernatural radio series, conjuring ghosts from thin air. With Russell as tour guide and circus midget Little Jack Horner riding shotgun, the narrative channels the voices of Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and Lenny Bruce, while connecting the cultural dots between the Greenwich Village of folk legend Dave Van Ronk, the Bakersfield of Buck Owens, the American southwest of environmentalist Edward Abbey, and the border cantinas of Tijuana. Russell subtitles the album A Ballad for Gone America, and it's plain he means "gone" as both the highest hipster's praise ("real gone," "outtasight") and a celebration of a wild strain of outsider artistry that has disappeared. By reminding the culture how much it has lost--how safe and homogenized it has become--Russell enriches the creative spirit with these echoes from the underground. --Don McLeeseTom Russell's Hotwalker CD is a portrait of a segment of American culture in a time gone by. Through original songs, narration, and the actual voices of literary and historical figures, Tom constructs a recollection of the outsider voices of American popular culture, literature and art of the 1960's. It is Tom Russell's second foray into photographing a piece of America's past, the first being the critically acclaimed The Man From God Knows Where CD.
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