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- Date Released: November 28, 2000
- Genre: Country/Folk
- Style: Contemporary Country, Contemporary Folk
- Label: Fantasy
Two parts honest scholarship, four parts home-brewed frat-boy hijinks.
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We Say...
Occasionally invading the hallowed Greenwich Village turf from Cambridge, where Joan Baez got her start, ex-Harvard man Tom Rush brought with him a sensibility that would define a generation: two parts honest scholarship, four parts home-brewed frat-boy hijinks. Saving his most inspired performance on this 23-song outing for "Big Fat Woman," Rush is best when he can play against his reserved collegiate demeanor to nearly rock out on songs like "Sister Kate," "Drop Down Mama," the immortal "Cocaine" and the legendary "San Francisco Bay," enabling an uptight un-liberated generation of future college dropouts to follow his trail from jug band music through folk to rock & roll. When Rush recorded his magnum opus, The Circle Game, in 1966, he defined folk-rock for all time, joining Judy Collins as the ultimate interpreter by introducing the works of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne to a wider audience.
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They Say...
A 23-song collection combining two albums that Tom Rush recorded in 1963 (Got a Mind to Ramble and Blues, Songs and Ballads) onto a single CD. Rush plays acoustic guitar, accompanied only by Fritz Richmond on washtub bass, for a selection of almost exclusively traditional material; the only track penned by Rush himself is the opener, "Duncan and Brady." This anthology is definitive early-'60s Cambridge coffeehouse music, which means that it's a bit quaintly dated, and also that it's Sunday-morning listening in the good sense of the term. Rush plays accomplished acoustic guitar and sings with calm authority, though he's no one's ideal bluesman (or even ideal white bluesman). The traditional blues covers, which dominated the original Blues, Songs and Ballads LP (now the second part of this CD), can sound pretty callow; the folkier ones work better, one highlight being the instrumental "Mole's Moan," penned by a young Maria Muldaur.
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| 01. |  |
Duncan And Brady |
3:41 |  |
| 02. | |
I Don't Want Your Millions Mister |
2:07 | |
| 03. | |
San Franscisco Bay Blues |
3:28 | |
| 04. | |
Mole's Moan |
2:56 | |
| 05. | |
Rye Whiskey |
2:07 | |
| 06. | |
Big Fat Woman |
2:49 | |
| 07. | |
Nine Pound Hammer |
2:39 | |
| 08. | |
Diamond Joe |
3:04 | |
| 09. | |
Mobile-Texas Line |
3:13 | |
| 10. | |
Joe Turner |
4:37 | |
| 11. | |
Every Day In The Week |
2:48 | |
| 12. | |
Alabama Bound |
3:15 | |
| 13. | |
More Pretty Girls |
1:49 | |
| 14. | |
Sister Kate |
3:12 | |
| 15. | |
Original Talking Blues |
4:18 | |
| 16. | |
Pallet On The Floor |
4:01 | |
| 17. | |
Drop Down Mama |
4:10 | |
| 18. | |
Rag Mama |
2:35 | |
| 19. | |
Barb'ry Allen |
6:43 | |
| 20. | |
Cocaine |
3:14 | |
| 21. | |
Come Back Baby |
2:30 | |
| 22. | |
Stackerlee |
4:43 | |
| 23. | |
Baby Please Don't Go |
2:51 | |
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