Tom Russell - Old America

Little Jack Horton was the king of the carnival, the voice of the great American midway, a voice that sounds like Ukulele Ike on laughing gas, the real thing. He's been shot out of cannons, he did the pass of death on a Shetland pony, he rode the Four Walls of Eternity on a motorcycle. He appeared in movies like The Terror of Tiny Town and One-Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando. And he wrote poetry. This is a true American voice from the sawdust back lots of the Old World

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[67jkerr]

Toms coming to the Celtic Connections music festival in Glasgow Scotland lookin 4ward to going to see him. This event just gets bigger and bigger every year!!

HaiL HaiL

[maxfrost68]

"This is a true American voice..." Well, no, because he's not real! There is no Little Jack Horton, there never was. Russell made him up. Talk about flim-flam man, to use Tom's words.

[teamfab]

This guy has a voice you could just get lost in..superb..

[DorjeDharma76]

form another white boy born near 5th & Main & knew all these places - poor and hustling hard scrabble at 8 ~ thanks for the flashbacks --- it may have been hell but it kept me strong when I grew older

[mysteria31]

Thank you.. Ain't hardly nuthin better..