Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rush is humorously off-handed about his past, he is positively evasive about the future: "Well, right now I'm living the way I want, doing something I enjoy doing. When that stops, I guess I'll do something else." Rush has four albums released, a new contract with Electra, and his now customary Monday night mands a sizeable and quietly destand at the Club 47 that comvoted audience. If, as one of his songs says--woman don't always treat him right--things could be a lot worse...
...freshman register is an accurate guide, when Rush arrived here fresh-polished from the halls of Groton, he was kind of pretty and awfully sincere. He sang that way, too, on his first record, Tom Rush at the Unicorn, made in 1962 when he was 21. Got a Mind to Ramble appeared a year and a half later, marking Rush's emergence as an autocthonous performer who is sensitive, controlled, and quietly versatile. Rush explains it, "I guess I did a little thinking and got involved with a few more women." In this album "Mole's Moan," a subtle instrumental...
This year Rush cut two new records: Tom Rush and Blues, Songs, and Ballads. While Tom Rush is no doubt the better of the two, Blues, Songs and Ballads has personality. It captures some of Rush's best performances: a riotous rendition of the old jazz tune "Sister Kate" acquired from Eric von Schmidt and a version of "Baby Please Don't Go" that I prefer to Mose Allison's. Excepting "Rag Mama" and "Drop Down Mama," which have inordinately good lyrics much of the remainder is pedestrian...
...Rush is excellent and shows Rush at his most versatile. It includes "If Your Man gets Busted;" "When She Wants Good Loving," from the flip side of "Idol with the Golden Head" by the Coasters, a of "The the invariably request John," another...
...this is very nice Rush is worth buying "The Panama Limited Rush derived from a train songs recorded by the late and White. I like what even better (a heresy cause his version is better than White's on lute scale but perhaps live in urban American and not in Mississippi 1930's. But philosophy aside, "The Panited" is a wonderful partly talked, partly about somebody leaving (a girl this time), with train effects created...