early 70's release of breezy Folk-(Pop)-Rock sounds by Texas-born Songman (teamin' up w/ The New Christly Minstrels in the 60's) emigrating to Canada ...lofty arrangements w/pedal-steel on the Country-fied 'n jangly "you've got me spinning"; full-band sound partly engineered in Nashville by Charlie Tallent; Russell's voice lies in the confluence of David McWilliams & Ralph McTell...; songs that pour down w/ a catchy, melodic flavour w/ many a mid- to up-tempo slope... and the renegade-drifter-haunt is bein' kindled on the great "eulogy to mother earth" w/ a lost-vybe-native-indian-social-concern in some menacingly poundin' stream w/ apocalypso air gettin' misty; recorded & produced by Gary Buck in Toronto...