Russell Alan

Wilmington, DE

$100 per hour

Travels up to 10 miles

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My Promo T-shirt

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Gigging at a small Mexican restaurant

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My Martin acoustic-electric Performance model guitar

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Gigging at THE WELL coffee house in Hockessin, Delaware

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With one of my fans at THE WELL coffee house in Hockessin, Delaware

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Me back in the day posing with my Gibson Hummingbird

Overview

1960s folk, blues, acoustic finger picking. Dylan, Clapton, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Donovan et al.


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Booking information

Price range: $100 per hour

Gig length: 180 - 240 minutes

What to expect

A mellow balladeer who does a lot of finger picking.

About

Started playing in 1964 so that means I have been at it 51 years. Started out as rocker playing Beatles tunes. Still do a finger picking cover of Dear Prudence as well as Here Comes the Sun and Two of Us. These days I like a nice mellow environment for my nice mellow music. I am from the same town in West Virginia (Glen Dale) as country star Brad Paisley. I lived on 7th Street and he lived on 8th street. Never met him though as I am bit older than Brad. I don't play country and western however. My big influences were the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Donovan and Gordon Lightfoot.

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Set list

Mellow Yellow, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Sunshine Superman, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Spill the Wine, Moon Dance, I Used to Be a KIng, Lucky Man, Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor, If You Could Read My Mind, Tambourine Man, Stormy Monday, Dust in the Wind, Vincent, Tears in Heaven, Mother Nature's Son, If You're Going to San Francisco and many others.

Influences and inspiration

Beatles, Bob Dylan, Donovan, Gordon Lightfoot, Mississippi John Hurt. 1960s folk.

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