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Folk artist Tom Russell brings his family saga to Tucson. By Gregory McNamee TRACING FAMILY HISTORY, genealogists will tell you, is an inexact science. It's not so much for lack of data: the world is afloat, after all, in birth and death certificates, deeds, snapshots, home movies. The challenge in uncovering one's roots is more often to separate fact from folklore, to cut through family politics, whitewashing (see Robert Altman's new film Cookie's Fortune for a case in point) and wishful thinking to find out what skeletons really lurk in Grandpa's closet. Singer-songwriter Tom Russell takes...

Tom Russell   Pilgrim Land Bukowski #2 "On the Hustle" Bukowski #3 America the Beautiful Tom 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...   more » 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.   Album Description Tom Russell's...

An Exegesis by Stu Levitan In late January and early February, 1964, when the number one song in America was “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” here’s what Bob Dylan was writing: Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind For the poets and the painters who reflect their given time An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashin...

Rolling Stone Patrick Sky, Folk Singer and Bob Dylan Contemporary, Dead at 80 Member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene, Sky released acclaimed satirical LP Songs That Made America Famous in 1973 By Timothy Duffy Patrick Sky, a member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene that launched Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and many others, died on May 27th in Asheville, North Carolina. Sky had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, but according to his wife, folklorist and musician Cathy Larson Sky, Sky succumbed to prostate cancer and bone cancer. He was 80. ...