Thanks to Bob P.
75 year old Tom Russell’s songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Doug Sahm, Nanci Griffith, k.d. lang, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Dave Alvin, Iris DeMent, Dave Van Ronk, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Joe Ely, Tom Paxton, Ian Tyson, and Joe Ely, among many others. He graduated from the University of California with a Master’s degree in Criminology and taught Sociology in Nigeria during the Biafran War.