Arthur Russell‘s climb to celebrated musician has for the most part taken place over the last 16 years, encouraged by a flow of compilation albums collected from the bottomless well of partially finished songs he left behind, much like his latest 2019 release ‘Iowa Dream’.
Nearly half the songs on ‘Iowa Dream’ are drawn from recording sessions with both Columbia Records‘ legendary John Hammond and Mercury’s Paul Nelson. Hammond considered Russell to have the potential to become ...
Arthur Russell‘s climb to celebrated musician has for the most part taken place over the last 16 years, encouraged by a flow of compilation albums collected from the bottomless well of partially finished songs he left behind, much like his latest 2019 release ‘Iowa Dream’.
Nearly half the songs on ‘Iowa Dream’ are drawn from recording sessions with both Columbia Records‘ legendary John Hammond and Mercury’s Paul Nelson. Hammond considered Russell to have the potential to become the next Bob Dylan — but increasingly became frustrated with Russell’s strange musical arrangements and the large backing band he’d bring to the studio.
From this album, the ever elegant folk strummer; ‘I Never Get Lonesome’ has quite simply been one of our favourite tracks here at Domino over the past year. It’s easy to see why when delving into the lyrics: “I never get lonesome, never in the day, never do I worry, I’ve got nothing to say…”.
SELECTED AND WRITTEN BY WILL THOMMES
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