Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...level, the '60s blues revival was giving middle-class white kids a cathartic rush by hearing about the troubles of poor Blacks. On another, the revival was disproving Lead-belly's famous statement that "never has a white man had the blues, 'cause nothin' to worry about." The kids may have been "alright," but from Vietnam to the H-bomb, they had plenty to worry about. These broad social issues were not the sort of thing blues singers had sung about in the past. White musicians like Bob Dylan, The Band, and The Rolling Stones added new irony and social...
STEVE AND I set off for downtown Harvard Square in the middle of Friday afternoon rush hour. We positioned ourselves in front of the mailboxes outside the Coop, and asked random passersby: "excuse me, would you like to use the mailbox...
Defining folk music as anything folks will listen to is too broad for Rush and Maple Hill, and confining it to Elizabethan ballads played on dulcimers is way too narrow. Most of the artists associated with Rush and Maple Hill play acoustic instruments, though Rush's keyboardist, Irwin Fisch, for instance, played a Baldwin grand rigged out with a synthesizer at Symphony Hall. Bill Morrissey is a quirky, funny New Hampshireman who sometimes performs with Rush, singing made-by-hand songs about how he should be working the second shift at the shoe factory, except that here...
...those hero CEOs in FORTUNE or Forbes who eats nails, sleeps three hours a night and never, never loses his driving wheel. Worse to come: by 9 a.m., the six employees of Maple Hill Productions have started to arrive, make coffee and restructure the music biz. The strategy that Rush worked out with Sykes was to use the Tom Rush name for leverage, once it was re-established. Then he would create a central organization that could bring folk musicians and audiences together. Now, Maple Hill Inc. of Hillsboro, N.H., is percolating as a record company called Night Light Recordings...
Meanwhile, there's a spread sheet to be read and plans to be made for a folk-music conference to be held at the farm in June. No, forget June, there are buckets to be taken down on Rush's roadside sugar maples, and it's time to put in blueberry bushes. Somebody's on the phone. Is he really doing all this crazy stuff? You bet. Has he found his driving wheel? Stay tuned...