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Tom Rush - Wrong End of the Rainbow Audio CD

A fair review of the Tom Rush "Wrong End of the Rainbow" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Tom Rush reviews here, or go back to the Tom Rush tabs.

Tom Rush Band: Tom Rush
Title: Wrong End of the Rainbow
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Release Date: 1999-01-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Driving Wheel 2: Rainy Day Man 3: Drop Down Mama 4: Old Man's Song 5: Lullaby 6: These Days 7: Wild Child (World of Trouble) 8: Colors of the Sun 9: Livin' in the Country 10: Child's Song 11: Wrong End of the Rainbow 12: Biloxi 13: Merrimac County 14: Riding on a Railroad 15: Came to See Me Yesterday (In the Merry Month Of) 16: Starlight 17: Sweet Baby James 18: Rotunda 19: Jazzman 20: Gnostic Serenade

great collection
This is a great collection of his most popular songs. I've been a Tom Rush fan for 35 years.


A Great Two-For-One Package
Tom Rush's voice just sounds like soft waves gently lapping on the shore as "the sun will set from off towards New Orleans. What joy to have found two great Tom Rush albums together on CD?! Here and there I have combed music stores throughout the years since these came out but could never find either one on CD! "Wrong End Of The Rainbow" was absolutely one of the best "soft" records I have ever heard. " "Biloxi" is a wonderful song; if you close your eyes you can really see the ocean and the boy with his pail on the beach, seeing "creatures from a dream of the water. " Tom just lulls you into a summer-induced dream with no hurry at all. Highly recommended!!!
P. S. I also stole this album from my older sister before she moved out, as well as her "Tom Rush" album!.


Audio CD
Should return and ask for a refund but have been out of town in Louisiana. Defective product that is unusable.


Two definitive albums from the "Great Interpreter"
He started out in the early 60's doing nice covers of some great folk and country blues classic for Verve/Folkways, then Elektra. Tom Rush really had two careers. Then somewhere along the line he began discovering great music by then-unheralded songwriters, and his truly excellent covers of their songs often brought them more commercial attention than they'd had up to then. His covers of "Urge for Going" and "Circle Game" did good things for Joni Mitchell, he recorded "Something in the Way She Moves" and "Sunshine Sunshine" before James Taylor's first LP and "Shadow Dream Song" before Jackson Browne made it big. These two ablums (his first two for Columbia--he'd already left Elektra at this point) have great covers of Taylor, Browne, Jesse Colin Young, Fred Neil, and Murray McLaughlin, among others. I agree with some previous reviewers that Rush's rendition of "Biloxi" is one of the real jewels here, but let's set the record straight. It's not his song and it's not Jimmy Buffett's. The author is Jesse Winchester. If you want to hear more like it, hunt down Winchester's self-titled debut on Bearsville Records.
P. S. , both of these albums have some great lead guitar work by Rush's long-time sideman Trevor Veitch.


Wonderful Compilation Of Tom Rush Folk Work!
Some of my favorite Rush classics which were otherwise not available on the CD format are included here, including "Wrong End Of The Rainbow", "Rainy Day Man", and of course, "Merrimack County". It is an indication both of Tom Rush's enduring appeal as well as of the dearth of comparable contemporary artists that explains the resurgence of these two albums. Given the fact that Rush has never been a terribly prolific songwriter, the fact that these three efforts are now available is something to get excited about. Most of the songs included here are quite good, and most of the cuts from the "Wrong End Of The Rainbow " album are exceptionally good to listen to again. It evokes a sense of the times in which it was recorded, a time when the counterculture was in full bloom, and the typical album addressed itself to a variety of poignant and relevant themes. This is among Tom's most earthy and straightforward efforts.

This was originally was two different albums, and the other was simply entitled "Tom Rush" album, the last two efforts he made under the Elektra label, before he moved over to the Columbia record label, who tried to package this eclectic interpreter of other peoples' songs into the next James Taylor. It didn't work. Rush was not a hit-machine like James Taylor, and couldn't keep up with the twists and turns the studio types tried to impose to make him a more bankable recording artist. Yet the songs remain for us to enjoy, especially efforts like "These Days", "Wild Child", "a haunting combination in "Child's Song" and "Old Man's Song", and of course, a lovely cover of Jimmy Buffet's "Biloxi". All in all, this is a neat collection that makes some of Tom Rush's otherwise unavailable material accessible again, and I am excited to now have all of these songs at my CD fingertips. Enjoy!.


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