A guitar-centric alchemist offering a potent mix of swagger, swing and philosophy. An improviser. A vivid lyricist. A vocalist possessing an agile baritone saturated with emotive grit. Songcraft distilled from vinyl album era singer-songwriters and artful rock, then framed in sophisticated jazz-blues. Add then a masterful guitarist - one whom Blues Revue aligned with the "fearlessness" of guitar legend, Jeff Beck - and you’ve got in front of you a captivating tunesmith by the name of Woody Russell. 

A critically acclaimed, award-winning artist, Russell concerns himself with a certain aesthetic: "It's centered in a blues and jazz ethos, but my music is an inextricably tangled myriad of inspirations. Though the lines are blurred, I seem to work best with musical concepts as individual projects. I can't neatly categorize my music, but it is a continual progression and transformation, as is my life experience." 

The often remarked upon multitude of colors in his music is the result of Russell's informed passion for seemingly disparate styles and his own musical cross-pollination at work. Blues. Jazz. Folk. Soul. Rock. Whether intimately acoustic, employing looped manipulation of the latest music making technology or via expert craftsmanship using the recording studio as an instrument itself, Russell’s music bears the patina of being lived in and restless, revealing "the sound of a musician who's invested a lifetime in sharpening his playing." 

Tours at all manner of venues (clubs, house concerts, theaters) and major festivals, including the prestigious Newport Folk Festival (2x). He's been a prominently featured artist on the CW Network's docu-reality show, "Troubadour, TX", a Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Roster Artist and a 2019 Austin Music Awards Poll Top Ten Songwriter.
