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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZRUSH, Tom(b 8 Feb. '41, Portsmouth NH) Folksinger. Father was a teacher; he attended Groton, then Harvard. Self-taught on guitar; played rock'n'roll after school, then discovered folk in Cambridge MA, with Greenwich Village in NYC a hotbed of the folk revival of early '60s. First LPs for Prestige/Folklore: Got A Mind To Ramble '63, Blues/Songs/Ballads '65 (later combined on a Fantasy CD), switched to Elektra for Tom Rush '65, played electric guitar on Take A Little Walk With Me '66; single of Joni Mitchell song 'Urge For Going' was mild hit, incl. in Circle Game '68. To Columbia for Tom Rush '70, Wrong End Of The Rainbow, Merrimack County, Ladies Love Outlaws. He continued to tour '70s, lived on a farm in New Hampshire. He had been the first to record songs by Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne, and was the first to advertise his own album in upscale mags like the New Yorker: albums New Year '82, Late Night Radio '85, Work In Progress and At The Unicorn were all on Night Light; in May '97 he was booked through to October: he still has many fans. |