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  Rush Tickets, Rush Concert Tickets at StubHub!
Rush is the band every teenage boy listened to in the 1970s and 80s, not least because of the science fiction and fantasy that flavored their progressive rock.
Rush's style brought them to be one of the most well known bands of the time and they gained a lot of fans.
Rush has definitely given a lot to their genre and even though they may not have been the favorites of the critics, they still attracted fans with their music.
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  Tom Rush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tom Rush (born on February 8, 1941, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) was a popular folk and blues musician in the 1960s.
Tom himself began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University.
Rush is credited by Rolling Stone magazine with ushering in the era of the singer/songwriter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Rush   (238 words)

  
 Tom Rush glitters anew on retrospective CD   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tom Rush is tuning a guitar in a back room at WUMB-FM before one of several radio interviews promoting a Saturday concert and a new retrospective CD, The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets, released Tuesday.
Rush is likely to break out one of those songs for his homecoming appearance at the Sanders, this Saturday, Oct. 9 at 8 p.m.
Rush's first Symphony Hall concert in 1980 was a booming success, even though he hadn't sold out a 500-seat show at the Paradise at $7 per seat shortly before.
www.andovertownsman.com /news/19991007/AE_004.html   (997 words)

  
 The Ark - Tom Rush
Tom Rush may not be as well known as some fellow veterans of Cambridge's Club 47 in the 1960s-- people like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Judy Collins.
Rush's three albums for Elektra in the 1960s were key founding documents of the entire singer-songwriter concept, and he's influenced everyone from James Taylor to Garth Brooks.
A performer with an abiding love of being in front of an audience, Rush is a rib-tickling storyteller, an expressive singer, and a guitarist capable of melancholy.
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 "Tom Rush" Liner Notes
When Tom Rush's self-titled album appeared on Elektra Records at the beginning of 1965, the recent university graduate was already an established veteran of the Cambridge, Massachusetts folk scene.
Tom Rush marked a step up for the artist, moving him to a label that was actually more prestigious than Prestige, and filling out his sound with an all-star squad of accompanists.
Rush, as well as collaborators Sebastian, Pappalardi, and Rothchild, would be heading full steam into the folk-rock revolution within a year, and Tom would devote most of an entire LP side of his next Elektra album to electric rock treatments of such rock'n'roll oldies.
www.richieunterberger.com /rush.html   (1002 words)

  
 The Triple Door - TOM RUSH
Tom Rush is one of the under-appreciated giants of American music.
As a performer, Rush is at the top of his game these days, his seasoned voice and storytelling prowess making him one of the great "coffeehouse raconteurs" of them all.
Rush sold out the show and he gave the audience a truly generous performance.
www.thetripledoor.net /event.aspx?eid=1285   (205 words)

  
 Tom Rush - Albums
Tom Rush is the master of his genre.
When it came to the music, Rush was deadly serious, thundering through Sleepy John Estes' "Drop Down Mama," his own "Merrimack County," and old Mississippi blues man Bukka White's "Panama Limited," a train song every guitar player in the 1960s swore he could play, praying he'd never have to prove it.
Rush's emotional encore was Murray McLaughlin's "A Child's Song," a plaintive tale of having to grow up and leave Mom and Dad behind.
www.tomrush.com /review_albany.html   (534 words)

  
 Tom Rush - Albums
Tom Rush is a gifted musician and performer, whose shows offer a musical celebration...a journey into the tradition and spectrum of what music has been, can be, and will become.
Tom Rush began his musical career in the early '60s playing the Boston-area clubs while a Harvard student.
Rush displayed then, as he does today, an uncanny knack for finding wonderful songs, and writing his own - many of which have become classics re-interpreted by new generations.
tomrush.com /about.html   (947 words)

  
 Tom Rush Biography : Oldies.com
Rush's exemplary versions of "Barb'ry Allen" and "Alabama Bound" were enough to confirm his place alongside Dave Van Ronk and Eric Von Schmidt, the latter of whom was an important influence on the younger musician.
Tom Rush, his first release on the Elektra Records label, was one of the era's finest folk/blues sets.
Tom Rush, the artist's first release for CBS Records, introduced his long-standing partnership with guitarist Trevor Veitch.
www.oldies.com /artist-biography/Tom-Rush.html   (566 words)

  
 CLUAS Indie Gig Reviews: Tom Rush live in New Hampshire
Tom Rush is the folk singer, folk-rock singer and country-blues revivalist who gave, amongst others, a young Canadian singer called Joni Mitchell her first break, recording a tune of hers called 'The Circle Game' back in the days when Ms Mitchell was hanging out singing for food and dollars in a Detroit nightclub.
This is Merrimack County, from where the young Tom Rush set off in 1961 to Cambridge and its main attraction - the burgeoning coffeehouse folk scene.
Interestingly, Rush focuses mainly on the earliest of his material, all tonight's songs stem from his 60s records.
www.cluas.com /music/gigs/tom_rush.htm   (535 words)

  
 Tom Rush: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Rush, who will perform Saturday at the Golden Phoenix, has long been credited with discovering the songwriting of such talents as Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne and James Taylor before any of them had hits on their own.
Rush, who was opening for Stephen Stills, remembers that the crowd wasn't in a receptive mood.
Rush comes to Anchorage on Saturday for a concert in Laurence Theatre, bringing a body of work that spans the first wave of popular folk music in the early 1960s and has ridden nearly every peak and valley since.
www.zoominfo.com /people/rush_tom_189275667.aspx   (1327 words)

  
 SoundStage! Tom Rush - The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets
Take, for instance, Rush’s 1963 recording of Leroy Carr’s "Mobile-Texas Line." The skilled blues-guitar riffs and straightforward singing hold up as well as the blues tracks on the wonderful 1998 Geoff Muldaur CD I reviewed on this screen just a few months ago.
In addition to Rush on vocals and acoustic guitar, we have Rupert Holmes string arrangement, conductor; Jeff Baxter electric guitar and pedal steel; Elliott Randall electric guitars; Bob Babbit (Kreinar) bass; Andrew Smith drums; Leon Pendarvis piano, Fender Rhodes; George Devens percussion; and Carly Simon vocal.
In all, The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets offers attractive glimpses at a musician’s three-and-a-half-decade recording and performing career -- a career defined by talent and integrity and animated by a unique marriage of the artist’s quest for truth and beauty to the human craving for experience.
www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev180.htm   (476 words)

  
 Folk Alley: Tom Rush   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rush's treatment of "Poor Man," the model for Dylan's "Ballad of Hollis Brown," is sensitive and persuasive, and "I'd Like to Know" was as current a protest in 1965 as when it was written (and now, too, I suppose).
Rush includes a gambler's song, "The Cuckoo"; "Windy Bill," a cautionary cowboy song; and a train song--Bukka White's bottleneck classic "Panama Limited." This last song is effectively a workshop for playing bottleneck train songs and a fine conclusion for the disc.
While Rush was eventually eclipsed by some of his contemporaries, he was true to tradition and the idioms of American music.
www.folkalley.com /music/amazon.php?asin=B00005REP7   (785 words)

  
 Overstock.com: Tom Rush - The Best Of: No Regrets : Music
Singer/guitarist Tom Rush came out of the fertile early-1960s Cambridge, MA folk scene, and made his mark not as a songwriter but as an interpreter of others` songs.
Rush`s plainspoken, versatile singing has some of the roughness of Dave Van Ronk and some of the mellowness of Eric Anderson and Tom Russell, and he effectively puts across a variety of songs--traditional acoustic blues, contemporary songs, country--in a convincing assortment of moods.
Rush was among the first to cover songs by Joni Mitchell, Jackson Brown, Lee Clayton and James Taylor before they became well-known.
www.overstock.com /sm-tom-rush-the-best-of-no-regrets--pg-proframe_pi-148001_ti-82125.html   (358 words)

  
 Tom Rush's "Take a Little Walk with Me" Liner Notes
Tom Rush's second album for Elektra Records, Take a Little Walk with Me, appeared in 1966, only a little more than a year after his Elektra debut, Tom Rush (also reissued on CD by Collectors' Choice Music).
Kooper was Rush's chief lieutenant for the project, organizing the band, planning the record with Tom by listening to about twenty of his '50s interpretations, and even writing the liner notes.
There was also a credible blues-rocker from the pen of Rush himself, "On the Road Again." It must have come as quite a shock to those Rush fans weaned on his acoustic folk shows in such Cambridge haunts as Club 47.
www.richieunterberger.com /takealittle.html   (1170 words)

  
 In No Particular Hurry: An Interview with Tom Rush
Singer/songwriter Tom Rush first made wave with his 1970 release, The Circle Game, which was a folk album that featured Rush’s versions of songs by Joni Mitchell and James Taylor.
The set includes all of his finest songs throughout the years, as well as newly penned tune titled "River Song." Although a longtime resident of New England, Rush has since moved to Wyoming where he is enjoying the serenity of the Grand Tetons.
Tom Rush: Well, there was this woman, see.
members.tripod.com /vermontreview/Interviews/tomrush.htm   (2441 words)

  
 Tom Rush at Caffè Lena   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tom Rush was at Caffè Lena in October of 1987.
Many years later after Lena died and the not-for-profit corporation was in fund raising mode to buy the building that had been its home for 38 years, Tom hearing of our plight gave a wonderful benefit concert to a packed house of delighted folkies.
Perhaps we are a bit self serving when we suggest that a good way to thank Tom is to give to the Caffe Lena Capital Campaign so that Tom and others that he has inspired or just new folks will have a place to entertain folks like us and earn a living while doing it.
www.caffelena.com /tom_rush_then_now.htm   (328 words)

  
 Tom Rush Interview
Tom Rush's career of thirty-seven years has not only brought his own work to the forefront of folk music, but the careers of many other folk artists as well.
Tom Rush was singing and recording the songs of Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, and many others, before most of us had ever heard of them.
Today, Tom Rush carries on the '60s folk tradition of the famous Cambridge, MA "Club 47" by leading tours with well-known and up-and-coming artists, bringing this traveling "Club 47" show across the US.
www.guitarsam.com /interviews/tom_rush.htm   (2366 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Music: The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets, Tom Rush, CD
Arising out of the Harvard Square folk scene of the early '60s, Tom Rush wrapped his intimate, gravelly voice around the songs of Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell (her unsentimental breakup song, "Urge for Going," is included here) when they were just a couple of unknown Canadians playing for tips.
Tom Rush's career continues to flourish as his musical vision continues to evolve.
Columbia/Legacy's The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets is the first comprehensive overview ever assembled of Tom Rush, one of the finest interpretive singers, and singer/songwriters, of the folk revival.
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 Tom Rush MP3 Downloads - Tom Rush Music Downloads - Tom Rush Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Returning to covering other people's tunes, Tom Rush's main strength, Ladies Love Outlaws plunges the listener full-tilt into the country-rock sound which so many were finding in the mid-'70s....
Named after the county where he resided, Merrimack County is also the first Tom Rush album which didn't show any ground gained.
Singer/songwriter/poet Tom Rush had a wonderful idea in mind for a concept album, working with...
www.mp3.com /tom-rush/artists/1777/discography.html   (1296 words)

  
 Tom Rush - FAQ (Frequently asked questions)
Tom: "I wrote the piece as a sound impression of a generic small seaport town, was going to call it Newport Sunday but decided that Newport carried too much baggage, switched to Rockport.
Tom replies: "It's a D, capo at the third fret to yield an F. I am looking for the TAB and tuning of Tom Rush's "Rye Whiskey".
Tom replies: "The tuning is C and, starting with the bass string, it goes C,G,C,G,C,E. So you tune the E, A and D strings down, leave the G and high E alone, and tune the B string up half a tone.
tomrush.com /faq.html   (2300 words)

  
 News & Events | Folk Legend Tom Rush to Perform
Tom Rush, who has captivated audiences for more than 25 years with his ever-romantic, gently rustic folk music, will perform in a MUSIC for a CHANGE concert on Friday, Sept. 5, at 7:30 p.m.
Rush’s own compositions, including songs on the recently reissued The Circle Game CD, are still lauded for their poignant, undeniable lyrics, and a number have become classics re-interpreted by new generations.
Columbia/Legacy Records recently released The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets, a 17-track compilation that covers his recorded musical history from 1962 to the present, as well as a brand new song that features vocal contributions from Grammy winners Shawn Colvin and Marc Cohn.
www.hartford.edu /newsevents/Releases/details.asp?id=443   (340 words)

  
 Vinyl Records "Tom Rush Albums"
Tom Rush (February 8, 1941-) was a popular folk and blues musician in the early 1960s.
He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1941.
Rush is credited by Rolling Stone magazine with ushering in the era of the singer-songwriter.
www.e-profession.com /records/Tom_Rush_record.htm   (108 words)

  
 Andover's Simple Sam to perform with Tom Rush   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rush, who performed at the Collins Center with Grammy-winner Janis Ian in 2000, is known not only for his own music, but for bringing then up-and-coming performers such as James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Alison Krauss and Shawn Colvin to larger audiences.
Betty, who actually met his wife at a Tom Rush concert some 35 years ago, says diversity in record sales is evidence that the generation gap in music has shrunk.
The March 12 show with Rush might mark the end of an era for Simple Sam, which first formed in 2000, when the four members were finishing middle school together.
www.andovertownsman.com /news/20041230/AE_001.html   (556 words)

  
 Tom Rush Official Ticket Source Joe's Pub New York, NY Broadway Tickets by Telecharge.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Tom Rush Official Ticket Source Joe's Pub New York, NY Broadway Tickets by Telecharge.com
Tom Rush first introduced the world to the songs of Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, and James Taylor over thirty-five years ago, and has been captivating audiences throughout the country ever since with his ever-romantic, gently rustic folk music.
A gifted musician and performer, whose music includes healthy doses of both folk and blues influences, Rush's own compositions, like No Regrets, Circle Game, Driving Wheel, Urge for Going and Merrimack County, are still lauded for their poignant, undeniable lyrics.
www.telecharge.com /tickets_Tom_Rush_NY_City_Joes_Pub.aspx   (317 words)

  
 Tom Rush News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Unlike most musicians, Tom Rush's music-as-a-career roots grew from a slightly different manner of inspiration.
Singer-songwriter Tom Rush, who will be performing Friday night in Framingham, is a living folk legend.
Tom Rush will perform at Fitchburg State College on Saturday, March 11, at 8 p.m.
www.topix.net /who/tom-rush?scoring=d   (402 words)

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