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| ARTIST: | Russ Tolman |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Diablo Records UK |
| FEATURES: | Import |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Looking for an Angel, Talking Hoover Dam Blues, Four Winds, Everything You Need and Everything You Want, Galveston Mud, Better Than Before, I an Not Afraid, Nothin' Slowing Me Down, Play Hard to Forget, Waitin' for Rain, Vegas, Domino, Down in Earthquake Town, Palm Tree Land, Midnight, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Baby, Face You Wear, Jump into the Fire, You Don't Have to Say Goodbye |
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Customer Reviews of Totem Poles & Glory Holes/Down
A Blaze of Glory... A fine collection of the first two solo albums from this talented songwriter that show an evolution in style and production without losing the elements of greatness. The first album, "Totem Poles and Glory Holes" has a heavy garage rock meets alt. country sound with a touch of 60's psychedelia. The lead off track, "Looking For An Angel" remains among one of Tolman's best (he's made 6 albums total, 3 of which have only been released in Europe thus far). Perhaps if Bob Dylan had used Roky Erikson and the 13th Floor Elevators while making "Highway 61 Revisted" it would have sounded something like this "Down In Earthquake Town" is quite different in that it finds Tolman sounding somewhere between Exile on Mainstreet era Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen. Here he's got some spicy soulful backing vocalists and an excellent keyboardist in Chris Cacavas (Green On Red). Jeff Kane, bassist on the first album, has switched to lead guitar where he shines on a number of solos. Lots of great songs here, but my favorites would have to "Domino", "Planes Trains & Automobiles" and "Midnight." Also check out the fine cover of Nilsson's "Jump Into The Fire."
Great Double Set from Influential Singer-Songwriter
In the mid-80s, Russ Tolman was trailboss of the psychedelic cow-punks True West. One half of the legendary lead guitar duo with stringsmith Richard McGrath, Tolman was also True West's principal songwriter and visionary. When the band split after too many failed attempts to grasp to the brass ring, Tolman recorded two solo albums for Elvis Costello's Demon Records in the UK. These two discs "Totem Poles and Glory Holes" and "Down in Earthquake Town" are brought together for the first time on CD. "Totem Poles" was characterized by Tolman as "a great ball of noise" and he was not too far off the mark. This are raw, garagy treatments of his great tunes. "Earthquake Town" was recorded after a move to LA from the Northern California college town that spawned True West. This album is a bittersweet look at the City of Angels, which contains such classic songs as "Palm Tree Land" and "Vegas." Tolman definitely presages the "Swingers" scene. All and all, a must-have double set from Russ.