Anyone who enjoys Wilco’s scuffed, sleepy Americana should get a kick out of Luther Russell, a beardy troubadour whose rich, dustbowl croon has more than a touch of the Jeff Tweedys about it.
A native of Portland, Oregon, Russell has been making albums, as a singer-songwriter and producer-for-hire, since 1991. But moving to LA in 2002 seems to have ignited his muse, and his new album Repair is the first time he’s caught the ear of the wider world.
A sparsely ornamented ballad, lyrically Everybody Falls demonstrates a sharp eye for melancholy detail (“Beads of lamplight on the ‘pane… We talk like morse-code/Tap-tapping on cold, cold graves”), complete with the barbed pay-off, “Everybody falls in love/Except for you.”
You can download Everybody Falls, along with the rest of Russell’s new album Repair, from
... or you can have a listen on [Myspace].
12:02 PM | 04/10/2007
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