Tom Rush tuning

Subject: RE: Tom Rush tuning
From: Lanfranc
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 06:33 PM

Ye Gods! The old grey cells are going (gingko deficiency?). Thanks 'catters for reminding me that it's Rockport not Shreveport Sunday! I was always an alliterative animal, and it's getting worse!

Somewhere I have the tab for Rockport Sunday, I'll dig it out. I only use about 20 percent of it with No Regrets.

I cannot find any Joni Mitchell recording of "Urge for Going" this side of the pond - if it exists I'd like to add it to my collection.

Subject: RE: Tom Rush tuning
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 03:35 AM

I've always been impressed by Tom Rush's having recorded songs by Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Jackson Browne before most people had even heard of them.
By the way, did Joni Mitchell ever put Urge for Going on an album? I remember hearing a recording of her doing it on an "underground" radio station (WDAS) in Philadelphia in 1970, and I have an even vaguer memory (ginkgo deficiency again) of finding it as a single on a jukebox in a restaurant in Princeton in 1970 or 1971. But I'm pretty sure, even without ginkgo, that it wasn't on any of her early albums.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Tom Rush tuning
From: GUEST,Clark
Date: 02 Mar 00 - 01:59 AM

Here is a quote from an interview with Tom Rush on a Joni Mitchell website.

"TR: "Urge for Going" I do in a standard tuning. "The Circle Game" is in a G tuning which I capo up differently to put it in my range, but I'm pretty sure I'm using her chordings on that because there is an unconventional over the neck grip that you use for one chord."

Subject: RE: Tom Rush tuning
From: rangeroger
Date: 01 Mar 00 - 11:13 PM

I've got the sheet music for Rockport Sunday but no tab and no way to scan it to send by e-mail, If you're willing to send your snail mail address to me I'll mail you copies. rr

Subject: RE: Tom Rush tuning
From: ddw
Date: 01 Mar 00 - 10:31 PM

I remember seeing on liner notes or in a book or somewhere that TR plays a lot in open C, which is what gave his guitar such a throaty, booming bass sound.

Re: No Regrets, it's one of my favorite TR songs, but my music partner recently picked up a "Best of" CD that has a version on it that sucks. The timing is totally different from the version on Circle Game and some goof overlaid syrupy strings. Awful!

Does anybody know of any Tab for Rockport Sunday? I'd love to see it if there is.

david

Subject: RE: Tom Rush tuning
From: rangeroger
Date: 01 Mar 00 - 09:57 PM

The Tom Rush songbook "Wrong End of the Rainbow" shows "Rockport Sunday" in B F# B F# B D# tuning.When I saw him in Spokane a few years back he used "Rockport Sunday as an intro to "No Regrets" as Alan does. The book shows "No Regrets" in standard tuning but played capoed 3 frets in A positon for a Key of C. I play capoed 2 to make the EM/c Dm/c C transition easier to find. (play the dots). The joni Mitchell songbook shows "the Circle Game" in standard tuning Key of C.Don't know what tuning Tom used on it. By the way, has anyone heard emmylou Harris' version of "No Regrets"? It's on her "Profiles" collection and is awesome.And for the 6-link connection thread. I went to elementary school with emmylou. rr

Subject: RE: Tom Rush tuning
From: MarkS
Date: 01 Mar 00 - 08:05 PM

Do "the Circle Game" in normal concert tuning with a capo on the second fret. When you play an normal G chord, use your pinkie on the e string and fret the b string on the third fret with your fourth finger. You will get an new sound. YOu can then get the ba-ba-ba-da riff by hammering on the second string open-first fret-third fret-open, and going back into the augmented g. Try it - you'll like it! MarkS

Subject: RE: Tom Rush tuning
From: Lanfranc
Date: 01 Mar 00 - 07:01 PM

Both "No Regrets" and the instrumental "Shreveport Sunday"(?) fit Open C. (CGCGCE) So much so that I usually use a chunk of the latter as an intro and outro to the song.

Listening to the record, I'm fairly sure that is the way Tom Rush played it. I've always sung "Circle Game" in straight EADGBE, probably because the first version of it I heard was by the Ian Campbell Group. Must try it in Open C some day.

Subject: RE: Tom Rush tuning
From: JedMarum
Date: 01 Mar 00 - 08:45 AM

I was tuned he used a G tuning, but it didn't sound like a standard major tuning to me. Sorry, I don't know any more. But I have found that using a D major tuning, you can work out Circle Game and No Regrets. They aren't the tunings he used, but they sound pretty good.

Subject: Tom Rush tuning
From: GUEST,Bill
Date: 01 Mar 00 - 07:46 AM

Does anyone know how Tom Rush tuned his guitar when he covered Joni Mitchells the cirgle game? Thanks Bill