Tom is now listening to Urge for Going - 2008 Remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4mVWOXS9KKhvDIdmkYUBOQ

#TomRush

Greenwich Village Folk Scene

Photographs by #DavidGahr

1) Folk singers in Washington Square, 1958
2) #EmmylouHarris, 1968
3) #JacksonBrowne, 1967
4) #MarcSilber, 1968
5) #TimBuckley, 1968
6) #BonnieDobson, 1964
7) #WillieDixon, 1960
8) #TomPaxton,1964
9) #TomRush, 1962
10) #PeterLaFarge, 1962

#greenwichvillage #folksingers #thevillage #thefolkscene #folkscene #thesixties #the60s #music #musicworld #musicscene #folkmusic #folkmusicians

TOM RUSH
"GARDENS OLD, FLOWERS NEW" RECORD RELEASE TODAY
Friday, March 1, 2024

[A]fter close to a year of hard-but-exhilarating teamwork, the new album is being officially released March 1st! It's been getting a lot of radio play and copies of the CD and LP have been (and will continue to be) available at TomRush.com — but now you can also stream the songs at any and all of the usual (and unusual) platforms:

▪ Spotify
▪ iTunes
▪ Deezer
▪ YouTube
▪ Amazon

Go for it!!!

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Quotes (album reviews) of the week:

"Fresh and insightful ... deep, warm and resonant singing voice that remains untouched by time ... takes the listener away on the winds of imagination ... "Gardens Old, Flowers New" is a "must-buy" album."
-Paul Collins, The Telegraph

"A Masterclass In Singing, Storytelling and Arrangements From An American Folk Legend ... simply spellbinding ...insightful ... captivating ... moving. I've played this album non-stop for two days now ... a God Like Genius."
-The Rocking Magpie [I would blush if I could remember how!]

Source: Tom Rush, "Release Day!!!" Friday, March 1, 2024.

https://www.tomrush.com/store/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Release+Day%21%21%21&utm_campaign=20240301_m179819001_Release+Day%21%21%21&utm_term=TomRush_com

When people tell Tom Rush this is his best album ever, he corrects them, saying it is his best album so far.

I checked: - one can also buy the CD at Amazon.com.

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#gardensoldflowersnew #massachusettsmusic #musicnews #newenglandmusic #singersongwriter #tomrush

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TOM RUSH
"OLD MAN'S SONG"

Old Man's Song
Tom Rush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzJYaHl3ErM

"Old Man's Song," a Tom Rush classic, is from his "Tom Rush" album, also a classic, on the Columbia Records label.

The topmost comment in the YouTube post starts with this:

"I was a kid and heard Child Song and other Tom Rush songs on WBCN Boston and jumped right out of bed, hitch hiked 20 miles bought this album, and hitch hiked right back home."

Well, I skipped out of my brother's wedding reception and went to hear Tom Rush at the University of Maine. He led a trio including Trevor Veitch on guitar and Duke Bardwell on bass. It was one of the best concerts of any sort I have ever heard. Tevor Veitch did many and diverse things in popular music, but this is the only time I heard him live. It seems to me Duke Bardwell was with Elvis Presley when I heard him in concert. Bardwell, at one time or another, was definitely in Presley's TCB Band.

The new Tom Rush album, "Gardens Old, Flowers New," is set for release tomorrow, Friday, March 1, 2024. When people tell Rush it is his best album, he corrects them, saying it is his best album so far.

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Music Museum of New England Tom Rush article

https://www.mmone.org/tom-rush/

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#childsong #columbiarecords #dukebardwell #elvispresley #gardensoldflowersnew #massachusettsmusic #mmone #musicmuseumofnewengland #musicnews #newenglandmusic #oldmanssong #singersongwriter #tcbband #tomrush #trevorveitch #universityofmaine #wbcn #wbcnboston

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TOM RUSH, CLUB 47

Back in the ‘60s there were a lot of coffee houses in the greater Boston area, but what made the original Club 47 the flagship of the fleet was that they not only hosted the young, local folkies (myself included), but also brought in the legends! You could sit in this little 80-seat room and listen to Maybelle Carter, Flatt & Scruggs, Bill Monroe. And they hosted Sleepy John Estes, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and many more of the blues icons.

What was even more amazing was that the legends were (mostly) friendly people!! You could go up to them and ask, “How do you do that thing you do?” and they would show you! There was a lot of amazing back-and-forth between the generations.

I acquired the Club 47 name around 1986, when the original coffee house had been closed for about 18 years (it closed in ’68 and a year later the location became the Passim coffeehouse — genetically unrelated but hosting the same kind of music as the 47).

I had started doing shows at Boston’s Symphony Hall in late December, between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, in 1982 if memory serves. They always featured guest artists and around ’86 I decided to do a three-night Club 47 reunion. My lawyer asked if I had permission to use the name, I said I wouldn’t even know who to ask. He got back to me in a few days and said the name was “unencumbered” and suggested I “encumber” it. So we got a Trademark and Service Mark.

I’ve since done Club 47 shows all over the country, including at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in DC … on and on. And, I’ve tried to keep the Club 47 shows true to the spirit of the original coffee house, featuring established artists mixed with really talented newcomers, coaxing them into interacting and playing with one another. And each show is one-of-a kind — I’ve never repeated one yet.

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Favorite Club 47 Story of the Month:

Two guests at one of my Symphony Hall Club 47 shows (1986?) were Bo Diddley and David Bromberg. It’s not widely known, but Mr. Diddley was an accomplished violinist. He borrowed David’s fiddle and David borrowed Bo’s bright red, rectangular electric guitar, and they’re backstage just before the show goes up — jamming Hava Nagila to the Bo Diddley beat!

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Source: Tom Rush, "Club 47 Rides Again!" Wednesday, October 18, 2023.

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#bodiddley #bostonmusic #club47 #clubpassim #davidbromberg #nemsbk #newenglandmusic #singersongwriter #tomrush

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