Name: Hurricane Season
Brand: Philo
SKU: 20025
Price: 54.54 SGD
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Hurricane Season

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Personnel: Tom Russell (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar); Andrew Hardin (guitar, 12-string guitar, 6-string bass, background vocals); William Troiani (guitar); Karl Fats Kaplin (steel guitar, fiddle, harmonica, accordion); Fats Kaplin (fiddle, harmonica, accordion); Billy Troiani (bass guitar); Mike Warner, Michael Warner (drums, percussion, background vocals); Gunnar Lehne (percussion).
Recording information: Athletic Sound, Halden, Norway.
Tom Russell scores consistently as both performer and songwriter on this release, which is loaded with inventive lyrics, effusive vocals, and rich, exuberant instrumentation. Best tracks include "Black Pearl," awhich benefits from Fats Kaplin's accordion; "Chocolate Cigarettes," which Russell cowrote with folksinger Sylvia Tyson; and the poignant "Haley's Comet," about the comet-like rise and fall of rock & roll's Bill Haley. In the years following this album's release, Russell has re-recorded many of these songs, and it's easy to see why -- when you've got material this good, it must be pretty tempting to keep taking it off the shelf. ~ Jeff Burger