Highlights
2023 Release, Essentials (Ltd Edition Compilation Album)
2023 Release, This Is Son Solitaire (EP + Video)
2023 Release, Big Sky: Remastered Edition (Album, remastered release)
2020 Release, Still Wilson (6 Single+Video project)
2019 Top 10 Austin Music Awards Poll - Songwriter Category
2017-Current Swan Songs Artist and Spokesperson *read more about Swan Songs
2016-18 Texas Commission On The Arts Touring Roster Official Artist
2016 Finalist - USA Songwriting Competition
2016 Listening Room Festival Featured Artist
2016 Release, Carry It Up (Album, with successful Pledge Music campaign)
2015 Finalist - International Acoustic Music Awards
2014 Release, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear + Go Tell It on The Mountain (Holiday Singles)
2014 Honorable Mention - International Songwriting Competition
2013 Recipient of the Bugle Boy “Founder’s Choice Talent Trust Award”
2013 Release, Delicious Days (Album + Video with successful Kickstarter campaign)
2012 Release, Big Sky (Album)
2012 Co-founder of BluzSkool, an interactive live program that encourages "Creative Courage" through musical improvisation with elementary aged children (booked at rural schools throughout Texas)
2011-12 Television: Prominently featured artist on the debut season (Sept ’11 – Sept ’12) of “Troubadour, TX”, a nationally syndicated docu-reality show that aired weekly on the CW Network in over 20 million homes
2011 Release, The Skin I'm In (Single)
2010 Release, Up Against It (Album, received substantial critical praise in national and international press (see press buzz below)
2005 Release, Salt (Album, nominated for an IMA “Album Of The Year”)
2001 Release, Time To Go (Album)
1998 Release, A Thousand One-Eighties (Album)
1996 Release, As Simple As That (Album, debut)
Continuous: Tours throughout North America at all manner of venues (clubs, house concerts, theaters) as well as major festivals (Newport Folk, NxNE, SxSW, Winterfolk, Folk Alliance, Kerrville, Sisters, Houston Int’l, Tall City Blues, & more)
Hospice Concerts:
Woody Russell works with Austin based organization, Swan Songs, to perform end of life concert requests. "These concerts are intimately powerful experiences as a performer; emotionally charged and deeply meaningful for the families, recipients and myself as an artist AND a human being. I have a great organization to thank for this connection, Swan Songs." (read more)