INTERVIEW: RUSSELL MORRIS – November 2017

INTERVIEW: RUSSELL MORRIS – November 2017

Russell Morris has been a pop star and a rock’n’roller in his 50-year career, but it’s as a bluesman that he’s achieved his most recent success. Fittingly, he’s returning to co-headline the 25th edition of Blues at Bridgetown, his fourth appeance at the festival.

With his recent trilogy of blues albums, starting with Sharkmouth and moving through Van Diemen’s Land and Red Dirt – Red Heart, Morris explored uniquely Australian stories, stories of both people and places. He always viewed that extended period to be limited to the three albums, and a year ago wasn’t sure what to do next, but with time comes clarity and direction, as he explains.

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