Russ Savakus (13. mai 1925–1984) er ein USA-amerikansk bassist (både elektrisk bass og kontrabass), fiolinist og songar. Savakus spelte med mange forskjellige artistar i og rundt vise- og folkrockmiljøet i New York i 1960-åra.[1] Tidlegare hadde han vore ein del av rytmeseksjonen for The Les Elgart swing band.[2]
I følgje Michael Bloomfield, som møtte Savakus på ei Bob Dylan-innspeling: «Dei hadde ein bassist, ein veldig kjekk kar, Russ Savakus. Det var første gongen han spelte elektrisk bass og han var nervøs for det. Ingen forstod noko som helst.»[3] Dylan valde likevel å erstatte Savakus på turné.[4]
Songar og plater han har spelt på er mellom andre:
- Embraceable You, Chet Baker, (1957)[5]
- Farewell, Angelina, Joan Baez, (1965)
- The In Instrumentals, Kai Winding (Verve, 1965)
- Reflections in a Crystal Wind, Richard & Mimi Fariña, (1965)
- Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan, (1965)[6]
- «Early Morning Rain», Ian and Sylvia, (1965)[7]
- Many a Mile, Buffy Saint-Marie, (1965)[8]
- Southbound, Doc Watson, (1966)
- Fire & Fleet & Candlelight, Buffy Saint-Marie, (1967)
- «Brown Eyed Girl», Van Morrison (1967)
- Memories, Richard & Mimi Fariña (1968)[9]
- Rhymes and Reasons, John Denver, (1969)[10]
- Don McLean, Don McLean, (1972)
- Playin' Favorites, Don McLean, (1973)[11]
- ↑ Richie Unterberger, Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution. Hal Leondard Company. p. 205
- ↑ Lawrence McClellan, The Later Swing Era, 1942 to 1955. Greenwood Publishing. p.50
- ↑ Wolkin and Keenom, Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues: An Oral History, Miller Freeman Books, San Francisco, 2000, s. 100
- ↑ Bob Spitz, Dylan: A Biography. WW Norton. p. 317
- ↑ «Chet Baker: Songs for Lovers» CD, Pacific Jazz Records 57158, 1997
- ↑ «The Essential Dylan». New York Magazine (New York Media, LLC): 27. 28. januar 1974. ISSN 0028-7369. Henta 18. juli 2010.
- ↑ Hounsome, Terry, Rock Record: A Collector’s Directory of Rock Albums and Musikars, Enlarged, Revised, Expanded, Facts On File Publications, New York,1987 p. 284
- ↑ Hounsome, Terry, Rock Record: A Collector’s Directory of Rock Albums and Musikars, Enlarged, Revised, Expanded, Facts On File Publications, New York,1987 p. 495-496
- ↑ Hounsome, Terry, Rock Record: A Collector’s Directory of Rock Albums and Musikars, Enlarged, Revised, Expanded, Facts On File Publications, New York,1987 p. 201
- ↑ Hounsome, Terry, Rock Record: A Collector’s Directory of Rock Albums and Musikars, Enlarged, Revised, Expanded, Facts On File Publications, New York,1987 p.157
- ↑ Hounsome, Terry, Rock Record: A Collector’s Directory of Rock Albums and Musikars, Enlarged, Revised, Expanded, Facts On File Publications, New York,1987 p. 381