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Tom Rush
Tom Rush performing in 2006.
Background information
Born	(1941-02-08) February 8, 1941 (age 77) Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States
Genres	Blues, folk, country
Occupation(s)	Arranger Singer Songwriter Record producer
Instruments	Vocals, acoustic guitar
Years active	1961–present
Labels	Elektra Records Prestige Records Columbia Records
Associated acts	Eric Von Schmidt
Website	http://www.tomrush.com/

Tom Rush (born February 8, 1941) is an American folk and blues singer, songwriter, musician and recording artist.^[1]

Life and career

Rush was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the son of a teacher at St. Paul's School, in Concord, New Hampshire. Tom began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University after having graduated from the Groton School. He majored in English literature. Many of his early recordings are versions of Lowland Scots and Appalachian 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. In the 1970s he lived in Deering, New Hampshire.^[2]

Rush is credited by Rolling Stone magazine with ushering in the era of the singer-songwriter. In addition to performing his own compositions, he sang songs by Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Murray McLauchlan, David Wiffen and William Hawkins, helping them to gain recognition early in their careers.

His 1968 composition "No Regrets" has become a standard, with numerous cover versions having been recorded (Rush did two radically different versions himself). These include The Walker Brothers, who gave Tom Rush Top Ten credit as a songwriter on the UK singles chart, Emmylou Harris, who included the song on her 1988 album Bluebird, and Midge Ure whose cover also made the UK Top Ten.

On March 1, 2007 a video of his performance of Steven Walters' "The Remember Song" was uploaded to YouTube, and, as of April 2017, it has received over 7 million plays. Writing on his website, Rush said,

I've been waiting 45 years to be an overnight sensation, and it's finally happened! 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 his "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 author Renée Askins and was formerly married to singer Beverly Rush.

Over the years Tom Rush has used a number of guitars on stage, his current primary one a handcrafted acoustic made by Don Musser. In February 2012, Rush appeared on stage in Colorado with a new instrument, a cedar-top Dreadnought 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".

On Dec. 28, 2012, Rush appeared at Boston Symphony Hall to celebrate fifty years in the music business.

With his new album “Voices” (2018) out, at age 77 (as of 1/2/2019), Rush is still frequently performing, touring the United States, these days often accompanied on piano by Berklee graduate Matt Nakoa.^[3][4][5]

Discography

• 1962 – Tom Rush at the Unicorn (Lycornu)


• 1963 – Got a Mind to Ramble (Prestige)


• 1963 – Blues, Songs & Ballads (Prestige)


• 1965 – Tom Rush (Elektra)


• 1966 – Take a Little Walk with Me (Elektra)


• 1968 – The Circle Game (Elektra)


• 1970 – Tom Rush (Columbia)


• 1970 – Wrong End of the Rainbow (Columbia)


• 1970 – Classic Rush (Elektra)


• 1972 – Merrimack County (Columbia)


• 1973 - Tom Rush (Fantasy)


• 1974 – Ladies Love Outlaws (Columbia)


• 1975 – The Best of Tom Rush (Columbia)


• 1982 – Tom Rush: New Year (Night Light)


• 1982 – Tom Rush: Late Night Radio (Night Light)


• 1989 – Blues, Songs and Ballads [Compilation] (Big Beat)


• 1999 – No Regrets: The Very Best Of Tom Rush (Columbia Legacy)


• 1999 – Tom Rush/Wrong End of the Rainbow (Import, Original recording remastered) (BGO)


• 2001 – Live at Symphony Hall, Boston (Varese Sarabande)


• 2001 – Tom Rush/Take a Little Walk with Me (Elektra)


• 2002 – Merrimack County/Ladies Love Outlaws (Import,Original recording remastered ) (BGO)


• 2003 – Trolling for Owls (Late Night)


• 2009 – What I Know (Appleseed)


• 2011 – The Fish Story Song & readings


• 2013 – Celebrates 50 Years of Music (includes DVD of the concert) (Appleseed)


• 2018 - Voices (Appleseed)

References

External links

• Official website


• 
  Official website — Renee Askins


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  Tom Rush at AllMusic
  


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  Tom Rush live in studio^{[permanent dead link]} from WGBH Radio Boston
  


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  "The Remember Song" on YouTube