Artist description Julian Russell is a fingerstlye guitarist and singer/songwriter as well as being a stylist of other folks tasty tunes. He performs regularly as a solo guitarist doing classical and other instrumental works. Julian also plays the folk and coffeehouse circut where he does more rootsy, vocal orientated material.

Music Style Eclectic

Musical Influences All

Similar Artists There is a bit of Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges and Tom Waits, but mostly he just sounds like him

Artist History He has been performing as a solo act regularly for the past several years

Instruments Guitar

Albums Steel-String Classical Guitar Volume I, Steel-String Classical Guitar Volume II, Wire & Wood

Press Reviews Julian Was a Phoenix Magazine Reader's Poll Nominee for: 1996 - Best Local Folk Act 1997 - Best Local Folk Act 1999 - Best Solo Act Russell composed and performed the score for the film Ballot Measure Nine - which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. "There is a warmth and emotional depth to his pieces that is hard to describe.  His style can transport you to exotic places. And his richly elaborate work touches my soul." Joe Longone, Worcester Phoenix "He's a magic man. Whether performinging at restaurants,shopping malls, night clubs or artist's complexes, the classically skilled fingers of guitarist Julian Russell have the ability to transform any location into Carnegie Hall." Brian Goslow, Worcester Phoenix "Russell combines the frantic picking of major pentatonic scales, the complexity of jazz, the structured beauty of classical and melts it into compositions that are delivered with mesmerizing fluidity." Charlene Arsenault, Worcester Magazine "...Russell turns up where you least expect him...Never failing to mesmerize audiences as the notes fall from his guitar like icicles from a pine tree." Brian Goslow, Worcester Phoenix

Location Boston, MA - USA

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