Tom Rush - Celebrates 50 Years of Music (Live) '2013

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Hot Tonight (Live)
02. What I Know (Live)
03. Lancelot's Tune (Guinevere) [Live]
04. Drop Down Mama (Live)
05. Urge for Going (Live)
06. Statesboro Blues (Live)
07. Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine (Live)
08. Child's Song (Live)
09. Drivin' Wheel (Live)
10. Get Together (Live)
11. No Regrets / Rockport Sunday (Live)
12. Who Do You Love (Live)
13. Wasn't That a Mighty Storm (Live)

Rising out of the New England folk circuit in the 1960s, Tom Rush never put
together a high-profile career, if indeed he ever even wanted one. He was never
a prolific songwriter, although he wrote good songs, and he never released a lot
of albums, although the ones he did put out were always solid, steady, and good.
Rush's warm and slightly world-weary baritone and his deft acoustic guitar
playing were his calling cards, and he had a knack for finding and interpreting
songs by new songwriters (he was the first to track songs by Joni Mitchell,
Jackson Browne, and James Taylor, for instance). His live shows were quietly
riveting, disarmingly casual, and wonderfully intimate. This set, which features
a DVD and CD from a concert Rush organized at Boston Symphony Hall in December
2012 to celebrate his 50 years as a professional folk performer, shows that he's
changed little, and if his voice is just a hair thinner than it was all those
years ago, he's still a delightful singer. The set list, which also included
guest and solo spots from David Bromberg, Jonathan Edwards, Buskin & Batteau,
and the Carolina Chocolate Drops' Dom Flemons, features Rush standards like his
solid versions of Sleepy John Estes' "Drop Down Mama," Joni Mitchell's "Urge for
Going," David Wiffin's "Driving Wheel," and his own wonderful original song
medley "No Regrets/Rockport Sunday," and Rush makes each song seem as dependable
and solid as the earth itself, somehow mixing a wistful weariness in his voice
with an underlying and unerring joyfulness, the same sort of thing he's been
doing for half a century now. That he's still doing it as well as he ever has is
a testament to his talent and character. He's never gone chasing after the gold
ring of stardom and fame, and that he still isn't chasing it somehow makes this
anniversary set all the more powerful.

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