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Tom Rush
(born February 8, 1941) is an American
folk
and
blues
singer and songwriter.
Rush was born in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
, United States, the son of a teacher at
St. Paul's School
, in
Concord, New Hampshire
. He began performing in 1961 while studying at
Harvard University
, after having graduated from the
Groton School
. He majored in English literature. Many of his early recordings are versions of
Lowland Scots
and
Appalachian
folk songs. He regularly performed at the
Club 47
coffeehouse (now called Club Passim) in Cambridge, the Unicorn in Boston, and
The Main Point
in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. In the 1970s he lived in
Deering, New Hampshire
.
Rush is credited by
Rolling Stone
magazine
with ushering in the era of the singer-songwriter. In addition to performing his own compositions, he sang songs by
Joni Mitchell
,
Jackson Browne
,
James Taylor
,
Murray McLauchlan
,
David Wiffen
and
William Hawkins
, helping them to gain recognition early in their careers. His 1968 composition "
No Regrets
" has become a standard, with numerous cover versions having been recorded (Rush did two radically different versions himself). These include
The Walker Brothers
, who gave Tom Rush
Top Ten
credit as a songwriter on the
UK Singles Chart
,
Emmylou Harris
, who included the song on her 1988 album
Bluebird
, and
Midge Ure
whose cover also made the UK Top Ten.
On March 1, 2007 a video of his performance of Steven Walters' "The Remember Song" was uploaded to YouTube, and, as of April 2017, it has received over 7 million plays. Writing on his website, Rush said, I've been waiting 45 years to be an overnight sensation, and it's finally happened! A video clip of my performance of "The Remember Song" has 'gone viral.' I felt terrible at first, thinking I was being accused of being a musical equivalent of
Ebola
, but my children explained to me that this was a good thing. One of the earliest music videos produced (1968) for an artist by a record company, Elektra, can be found at his website. It was used to promote his signature song, "No Regrets" for his
The Circle Game
album. A number of recent videos from a 2010 concert performed in
Old Saybrook, Connecticut
can be found online. Tom Rush is married to author Renée Askins and was formerly married to singer Beverly Rush. Over the years Rush has used a number of guitars on stage, his current primary one a handcrafted acoustic made by Don Musser. In February 2012, Rush appeared on stage in Colorado with a new instrument, a cedar-top
Dreadnought
with an inlay of a snake wrapped around a reclining nude woman. The guitar, crafted by McKenzie & Marr Guitars is a "re-incarnation" of one of Rush's earliest acoustics, the famous "Naked Lady". On December 28, 2012, Rush appeared at Boston Symphony Hall to celebrate fifty years in the music business. With his new album
Voices
(2018) out, at age 79, Rush is still frequently performing, touring the United States
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