Love and Fear

the songs of tom russell chart the lives of outsiders and people living at the margins, and on his newest album 'love and fear' he intertwines their stories and his own in a chronicle of dreams and dreams deferred; passion and desperation; sin and redemption. taking a more personal tack than on recent works, russell ventures into what he calls 'the ragged outback of love' for a gritty, edgy collection of 11 original songs - seven produced by gurf morlix (lucinda williams, mary gauthier) - approaching love from every angle with a range that ventures from folk-rock anthems to wistful, lovelorn ballads.