Tom Russell

Geography of love

by James M. Manheim

posted 4/1/2003

Tom Russell was born in Los Angeles in 1950 and now lives in El Paso. To use the words of one of his songs, he "took the long way around" to get there, passing through "the wide-open countries and the heart-attack towns" — St. Louis, New York, and Bisbee, Arizona, among them. Since the late 1980s he's been known to those who

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