FARNCOMBE ST JOHN'S CHURCH

FRI 17TH OCT, 2008 6.30pm

No support. Concert starts at 7.45pm and includes a 30 minute interval. Doors, the Fairtrade Cafe & Bar and CD / DVD stall open from 6.30pm.


"One day the greatness of Tom Russell will surely be fully recognised and if the big names populating this powerhouse collection help make it come sooner, then we should all celebrate." said Colin Irwin of Mojo in October 2007 about Wounded Heart of America (Tom Russell Songs)a tribute to perhaps the finest post-Dylan roots songwriter.

"How great is Tom Russell? Isn't he tremendous? Always the best. ` I would like to quit my job and travel with him.... if the money could be worked out." - David Letterman, Late Night, 19 April 2006

"Tom Russell is an original, a brilliant songwriter with a restless curiosity and an almost violent imagination." - Annie Prouxl Pulitzer Prize winning author: "The Shipping News" & "Brokeback Mountain"

"If American Music needs an heir to Johnny Cash, Tom Russell might just be the man, he's the real deal." - UNCUT 5/04


"The greatest living country songwriter in a man named Tom Russell; he's written songs that capture the essence of America, a trait that can only be matched by the country's greatest novelists..." - Rolling Stone John Swenson