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Arthur Russell

Iowa Dream

Audika Records

AU-10197-1 LDPBL LP

2LP Black $25.50 $34
CD $15
  • Nineteen tracks of Russell’s most personal work.
  • Featuring collaborations with a stacked roster of downtown New York musicians.
  • More than forty years after Russell recorded several nearly finished songs, Broderick worked diligently with Audika to complete them, and performed audio restoration and additional mixing.

Description

Over the past decade, the visionary musician Arthur Russell has entered something close to the mainstream.

Sampled and referenced by contemporary musicians, his papers now open to visitors at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center in New York, and his name synonymous with a certain strain of tenderness, Russell is as widely known as he’s ever been. Thanks to Russell’s partner Tom Lee and to Steve Knutson of Audika Records, who have forged several records from Russell’s vast archive of unfinished and unreleased work, the world now hears many versions of Arthur Russell. There’s the Iowa boy, the disco mystic, the singer-songwriter and composer, and the fierce perfectionist deep in a world of echo. While all of these elements of Russell are individually true, none alone define him.

Now, after ten years of work inside the Russell library, Lee and Knutson bring us Iowa...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Wonder Boy
  • 2 I Never Get Lonesome
  • 3 Everybody Everybody
  • 4 You Did It Yourself
  • 5 Come to Life
  • 6 Iowa Dream
  • 7 Words of Love
  • 8 I Still Love You
  • 9 You Are My Love
  • 10 Barefoot in New York
  • 11 Just Regular People
  • 12 I Wish I Had a Brother
  • 13 I Felt
  • 14 The Dogs Outside Are Barking
  • 15 Sharper Eyes
  • 16 Follow You
  • 17 List of Boys
  • 18 I Kissed the Girl from Outer Space
  • 19 In Love With You for the Last Time