The longtime Tulsa musician recently added 29 tour dates, including a Dec. 19 show at the Wormy Dog Saloon in Oklahoma City’s Bricktown district. He will also perform at the Norman Music Festival on April 25, on Norman’s Main Street, the site shows.

He will also perform in New York, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Hawaii, Texas and more, the site shows.

The keyboardist, guitarist and songwriter was a pivotal figure in the bluesrock movement known as the Tulsa Sound and has performed, recorded and toured with artists including J.J. Cale, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joe Cocker, George Harrison, B.B. King, Freddie King, the Byrds and many more.

He was also part of the studio band for legendary music producer Phil Spector and owned Tulsa’s Church Studio for many years before selling it to fellow musician and Tractors band member Steve Ripley.

Earlier this year, Elton John let slip on Elvis Costello’s talk show that he had tentative plans to record with Russell on a new album, to be produced by T-Bone Burnett. No firm recording or release date has been announced.

For more information on the Osage Million Dollar Elm show, visit the venue’s official Web site at tulsaworld.com/milliondollarelm.

For more information on the Oklahoma City show, visit the official Wormy Dog Saloon site at tulsaworld.com/wormydog. The Norman Music Festival site will be updated soon.

For more information, visit tulsaworld.com/normanmf.

Hannity and friends

Ticketing was recently released. Tickets are $75, $100 and $125, plus fees. Visit tulsaworld.com/tulsafreedomConcert for more information and purchasing details.

Featured music acts for the 2010 tour include the Charlie Daniels Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Michael W. Smith, multiple sources show.

Hannity is a conservative political commentator, nationally syndicated talk radio host and FOX News talk show host.

Since 2003, he has helped raise more than $10 million for the Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund. The fund lends education aid to children of U.S. service members who have been killed or permanently disabled during U.S. operational missions or training accidents, the official Web site claims.