About Me
Russ Buchanan is a still-breathing refugee from the excesses of the 70s, 80s and 90s pop/rock/country scene. He was a member of "Sugarloaf" ("Green-eyed Lady"), "Player" ("Baby Come Back"), "Thieves" ("You wouldn't know any of our songs, but we did manage to put the record company out of business"), and many others. He has toured or recorded with Tanya Tucker, Gary Wright, Danny O'Keefe, Exile, Dolly Parton, Rare Earth, and zillions of others.His contribution to Hollywood is almost as eclectic as his musical resumé. From the voice of "Kingfisher," the philosophical Cajun DJ from "Candyman, Farewell to the Flesh", to "Elgart Brunson," the mucho-macho country singer in the so-bad-it's-almost-good Stallone/Parton flick, "Rhinestone." In the movie, Buchanan sings "The Day My Baby Died" - a country song about the tragic demise of his bride on the morning of their wedding day -- a warning to us all to be careful around farm machinery when wearing flowing satin and lace. "Yeah, the movie was awful," Buchanan says, "but dammit, I was funny! My mom said so." Buchanan is also the singing voice of "Jacob" in Dreamworks' "Joseph, King of Dreams," and does voice-overs for everything from A&E's "Biography" series, to the "Don't Pass Gas" secondhand-smoke PSAs, to Barack Obama's campaign ads.
"The Russ Buchanan EP" and the "Save the Institution EP" are the first two salvos from his "Political Potshots With a Strong Backbeat" project, and are truly labors of love. As Buchanan puts it, "I know the market for political music is about as lucrative as Lithuanian disco these days, but, doggone it, God created ProTools (digital recording application) so guys like me could make fun of Bush and the Greedhead Cabal. It would be a sin to do anything else."
