Russ K., also listed as Russell K., was an AA speaker from Montgomery, Alabama, whose voice moved through the Southern speaker circuit and out west to the Desert AA Pow Wow in Indian Wells.
His known trail places him at the Marietta Roundup in Georgia in 1991 and again in 1994, at the Desert AA Pow Wow in Indian Wells in 1991, and later at the Flint River Roundup in Bainbridge in 2002. That is not a man who wandered into one ballroom by accident. That is a message with legs.
Russ K. appears in the record as a regional AA speaker with enough staying power to be invited across years and state lines. Montgomery, Marietta, Indian Wells, Bainbridge — the old circuit map of coffee, folding chairs, banquet rooms, airport rides, and one alcoholic telling another the truth without charging admission.
There is not enough here to dress him up in borrowed biography, and he does not need it. The trail itself has a certain authority. Russ K. carried the message where he was asked, and the rooms kept making space for him.
A Southern AA voice. A Desert Pow Wow tape. A speaker circuit footprint lasting more than a decade.
That will do, darling. In AA, mileage is often the biography.
Oceanside Tape Project: Recovery Speaker Tapes
Russ K. — AA
Russ K. — AA
Indian Wells, CA — Desert AA Pow Wow — 6/30/1991
Oceanside Tape Project: Recovery Speaker Tapes
The Oceanside Tape Project is a recovery audio preservation project focused on digitizing old A.A. and AFG/Al-Anon speaker tapes and helping move them into XA-Speakers for long-term public access.
These recordings come from conventions, conferences, roundups, workshops, group anniversaries, central office collections, tape libraries, and local rooms across the recovery world. Many were recorded decades ago on cassette and passed from hand to hand before podcasts, streaming, and digital archives existed.
Our role is simple: find the tapes, digitize them, identify them as carefully as possible, and help keep the message available.
This podcast shares selected recordings as part of that preservation effort — voices from A.A., AFG/Al-Anon, and the wider recovery tape tradition, carried forward one tape at a time.
The Oceanside Tape Project is a recovery audio preservation project focused on digitizing old A.A. and AFG/Al-Anon speaker tapes and helping move them into XA-Speakers for long-term public access.
These recordings come from conventions, conferences, roundups, workshops, group anniversaries, central office collections, tape libraries, and local rooms across the recovery world. Many were recorded decades ago on cassette and passed from hand to hand before podcasts, streaming, and digital archives existed.
Our role is simple: find the tapes, digitize them, identify them as carefully as possible, and help keep the message available.
This podcast shares selected recordings as part of that preservation effort — voices from A.A., AFG/Al-Anon, and the wider recovery tape tradition, carried forward one tape at a time.
