Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me Merry Christmas To You From Joseph after ten years of work

after ten years of work inside the Russell library

Stones Throw Records

and Venus in Leo marks a spirited new chapter by one of the most distinctive bands of the past decade

gathered together on two LPs for the first time

the re-energized songwriter imparts life lessons to the child he may never have

Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me Merry Christmas To You From Joseph after ten years of workAmerican cellist, composer, and artist. Born: 21 May 1951 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, USA. Died: 4 April 1992 in NYC, New York, USA (aged 40). Russell was raised in Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he later studied the cello and began to write his own music. In the early 1970s, he moved to California and studied Indian music at the Ali Akbar Khan School in San Francisco. He met [a=Allen Ginsberg], with whom he began to work, accompanying him on the cello while Allen