The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #112306   Message #2375132
Posted By: lefthanded guitar
26-Jun-08 - 05:57 PM
Thread Name: Lets talk Tom Rush
Subject: RE: Lets talk Tom Rush
Thanks for starting this thread. Tom is one of the under rated folk singer/songwriters whose material I have listened to since the seventies. I hold him in tremendous high regard.

I didn't get to see him perform live til last year, and he was terrific; modest, warm, funny and personable as a performer, and his songs and touching and poignant as ever.

My favorites from Tom(whether or not he wrote them , they are songs I first learned from him) are

Rockport Sunday- gosh I WISH I could play this like he does, song is

                   SO evocative and touching


No Regrets - signature tune


Biloxi -I believe written by Jesse Winchester, but I first heard Tom's verison of this mystical and sensual tune


Joshua Gone Barbados - haunting and beautiful song about an ugly
                           and true political situation

along with Child's Song, Driving Wheel, etc. etc.


And yes, he did the" Memory Song "in concert - it was so funny and true, you know.... I can almost remember it.