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Track Listing 1. Pilgrim Land 2. Old America 3. Hotwalker 4. Border Lights 5. Beat Folk 6. Van Ronk 7. Bakersfield 8. Grapevine 9. Woodrow 10. Benediction: Edward Abbey 11. Honky Jazz 12. Swap Meet Jesus 13. Bukowski #1 - (with Harry Partch) 14. Harry Partchi, Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce 15. Bukowski #2 on the Hustle 16. Bukowski #3 17. Requiem 18. Coda: Little Jack Horton 19. America the Beautiful
Album Notes Personnel include: Tom Russell (vocals, guitar); Dave Van Ronk, Andrew Hardin (vocals, guitar); Gretchen Peters, Mark Hallman (vocals); Jack Elliott, Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce, Virginia Brown, Charles Bukowski (spoken vocals); Redd Volkaert (guitar); Jim Murphy (steel guitar); Fats Kaplin (pedal steel guitar, fiddle, accordion); Michael Lorca Martin (mandolin); Tony Campise (flute, saxophone); Joel Guzman (accordion); Billy Donahue (bass instrument); Chris Gibson (drums). Recording information: Congress House, Austin, TX (2004).
Industry Reviews 5 stars out of 5 - HOTWALKER is a colossal achievement....It's the lost post-war landscape of Beat pioneers, outsider poets and drunken angels...
4 stars out of 5 - Russell's growling, atmospheric songs are interspersed with intriguing cameos....A graphic paean to a maverick, free-spirited, yet more beautiful age.
It's a tribute to outsider culture....HOTWALKER is a fascinating trip back to a lost era and is an original work by anyone's standards.
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