Robert Coleman Trussell: Home
Welcome to the dark side of Texas bravado!
Some of you may have wandered here because of Car Talk's recent airplay of Go Go Go from TEXAS GOTHIC, the debut album of singer/songwriter Robert Coleman Trussell. Others may have heard Broke to Ride on National Public Radio's Open Mike.
Or maybe they heard there's a brand new album in the same roots / urban folk / acoustic / insurgent country / alt.country / Americana / unplugged tradition as TEXAS GOTHIC. That's right! More drunks, more loners, more outlaws, more unhinged men in love.
JUICE & JIVE, slated for release in early 2008, features Trussell on guitar and harmonica and co-producer Kelly Werts on fiddle, mandolin and banjo. And, yes, his portable USO pump organ will make another appearance. Rachel Ries, the fabulous Chicago-based singer-songwriter, provides harmonies on three cuts. The album will be available on CD Baby, iTunes and other sites. For a promo copy or more information, drop a line to yonderbob at mac dot com.
On JUICE & JIVE are 17 original songs: Two by Two, Forty Notches, Goodbye For Now, The End of the World Again, Stomping Grounds, Ten Till Midnight, Waiting Room Blues, Austin Town, Long Way From Topeka, Days of Jubilee, Walking Feet, Mamacita, I Gave a Prayer, Hungry Eyes, Down on My Knees and Cat Walkin'.
Trussell's debut album TEXAS GOTHIC, released in 2005, reflected the flat landscape of South Texas and the eternal pull to see the world on the other side of the horizon. One critic wrote: "He paints a picture of life in those dusty towns your parents would never stop at unless they were out of gas."
In 2006 Alaska's Whole Wheat Radio featured Trussell as artist of the day, and DJs in Salt Lake City, San Antonio, New York City as well as the Netherlands, France and Italy have played TEXAS GOTHIC. Despite a marketing budget of $0, the album rose to number 5 on the Roots Music Report folk chart.
