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Biography
BLP sources|date=October 2011Infobox musical artist|image= TomRush.jpg| name = Tom Rush||caption = Tom Rush performing in 2006.| image_size = | background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1941|02|08|birth_place = Portsmouth, New Hampshire|Portsmouth , New Hampshire , United States | death_date =| origin =| instrument = Vocals, acoustic guitar| genre = Blues , Folk music|folk , Country music|country | occupation = Arranger Singer Songwriter Record producer | years_active = 1961present| label = Elektra Records Prestige Records Columbia Records | associated_acts = Eric Von Schmidt | website = http://www.tomrush.com/| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Tom Rush (born February 8, 1941) is an American folk music|folk and blues music|blues singer, songwriter, musician and recording artist.cite book|last=Dicaire|first=David|title=The Folk Music Revival, 1958-1970: Biographies of Fifty Performers and Other Influential People|url= http://books.google.com/books? id=1-6fCiGrPPgC& pg=PA95|accessdate=21 February 2012|date=2011-09-09|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-6352-7|pages=95
Life and career
Rush was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire . His father was a teacher at St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School , in Concord, New Hampshire . Tom began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University after graduating from the Groton School . He majored in English literature. Many of his early recordings are versions of Lowland Scots and Appalachia n folk songs. He regularly performed at the Club 47 coffeehouse (now called Club Passim) in Cambridge, the Unicorn in Boston and The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Rush is credited by Rolling Stone (magazine)| Rolling Stone magazine with ushering in the era of the singer/songwriter . In addition to performing his own compositions, he covered songs by Joni Mitchell , Jackson Browne , James Taylor , Murray McLauchlan , David Wiffen and William Hawkins (songwriter and poet)|William Hawkins , helping them to gain recognition early in their careers.
Bob Dylan is reputed to be the "Roosevelt Gook" credited as playing piano on the 1966 Elektra album Take A Little Walk With Me , though many believe it was Al Kooper under another name to collect a second musician's fee.
His 1968 composition " No Regrets (Tom Rush song)|No Regrets " has become an acknowledged standard, with numerous cover versions having been recorded (Rush did two radically different versions himself). These include The Walker Brothers , who gave Tom Rush a belated Record chart|Top Ten exposure as a songwriter on the UK singles chart , and Emmylou Harris , who included the song on her 1988 album Bluebird (Emmylou Harris album)|Bluebird .
A video of his performance of Steven Walters' "The Remember Song" was placed on YouTube and to date (March 2010) it has received over 4 million plays. Writing on his website, Rush said "I've been waiting 45 years to be an overnight sensation, and it's finally happened& #33; A video clip of my performance of "The Remember Song" has 'gone viral.' I felt terrible at first, thinking I was being accused of being a musical equivalent of Ebola , but my children explained to me that this was a good thing." One of the earliest music videos produced (1968) for an artist by a record company, Elektra, can be found at his website, www.tomrush.com. It was used to promote his signature song, "No Regrets" for "The Circle Game" album. A number of recent videos from a 2010 concert performed in Old Saybrook, CT can be found on the video website Vimeo under a search for Tom Rush.
Tom Rush is married to the author Renιe Askins and used to be married to http://pierce.state.nh.us/nharts/artsandartists/roster/artistinfo.asp? ArtistID=318 Beverly Rush.
Over the years Tom Rush has used a number of guitars on stage - his primary current one being a hand crafted acoustic made by Don Musser. In February 2012 Rush appeared on stage in Colorado with a new instrument - a cedar-top Dreadnaught with an inlay of a snake wrapped around a reclining nude woman. The guitar, crafted by McKenzie & Marr Guitars is a "re-incarnation" of one of Rush's earliest acoustics - the famous Naked Lady.
1970 Tom Rush (1970 album)|Tom Rush ( Columbia )
1970 Wrong End of the Rainbow
1972 Merrimack County (album)|Merrimack County
1974 Ladies Love Outlaws (Tom Rush album)|Ladies Love Outlaws
1975 The Best of Tom Rush ( Columbia )
1982 Tom Rush: New Year
1982 Tom Rush: Late Night Radio
1991 Blues, Songs and Ballads Compilation
1999 No Regrets: The Very Best Of Tom Rush
1999 Wrong End of the Rainbow (Import, Original recording remastered)
2001 Tom Rush/Take a Little Walk With Me (Import, Original recording remastered)
2001 Live at Symphony Hall, Boston (Live)
2002 Merrimack County/Ladies Love Outlaws (Import)
2002 Take a Little Walk with Me
2003 Trolling for Owls
2009 What I Know
2011 The Fish Story Song & readings
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External links
http://www.tomrush.com/ Tom Rush Official web site
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p2122|label=Tom Rush
http://mediaplayer.wgbh.org/? xml=folk/rush_tom_live.xml& resize=1 Tom Rush live in studio from http://wgbh.org/folk WGBH Radio Boston
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=9yN-6PbqAPM "The Remember Song" on YouTube
Persondata | NAME =Rush, Tom | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =February 8, 1941 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Portsmouth, New Hampshire|Portsmouth , New Hampshire , United States | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Rush, Tom Category:1941 births Category:Living people Category:American folk singers Category:American singer-songwriters Category:Harvard University alumni Category:People from Portsmouth, New Hampshire Category:Elektra Records artists
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