Russell Dowsett, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Songwriter.

As well as being a musician I am a builder & a teacher from Tasmania in Australia. I am 51 years old and I am married with two children, I...

Russell Dowsett, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar & Songwriter.

As well as being a musician I am a builder & a teacher from Tasmania in Australia. I am 51 years old and I am married with two children, I live on a small island just off the coast of the island of Tasmania. I have been playing guitar, writing songs & singing for many years now because, when I do, it takes me to mysterious places & spaces. My main influences are John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg & Paul Kelly but there are many other musicians and poets I've been on the road with, leading all the way back to Shakespeare and Chaucer.

My early musical experiences were on the streets of Adelaide & Canberra, busking in the Malls and on the footpaths, at all hours of the day. Meeting people, singing songs and watching the parade of life passing by, secretly observing and remembering what I saw. Then in more recent times I took to the pubs & clubs on open mic nights, performing my favourite covers, songs like; She’s got a new Spell, I was taught by Experts & Tangled up in Blue. Occasionally, when no one was looking, I would slip in an original tune & make a connection.

Time moves on and I found myself, like Robinson Crusoe, living on a small island of tranquillity. Totally fulfilling, building a house and raising children but hardly a great career move! Live performance became impractical, one door closes and yet another opens and through that door is a small home recording studio. With the help of this technology I dust off the old red & black ledgers, where in another life time I was wont to scribble notes, chord sequences and scraps of poetry. With a batch of songs, reworked, fused with each other or just polished I record them on the home computer and upload them to America, Germany, England and even as far away as Australia!

The songs that you listen to here are the results of these collaborations, people I have only ever met in those mysterious spaces & places alluded to. There are many people to thank but mainly the Gevania crew, Johnno & Harry ‘The Seeker’ Gotz.

One day....... maybe, when it stops raining.........

Russell.