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Folk icon Tom Rush
If you are a Baby Boomer who was tuned into the folk music genre in the 1960s and '70s, then you were probably tuned into Tom Rush.
Rush is an early entrant into the singer-songwriter era. He was born in Portsmouth, N.H., and was part of the Boston and Cambridge music scene in the late Sixties, helping promote the careers of Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne by covering their songs -- "Urge for Going" by Mitchell, "These Days," by Browne, to name a couple.
It's not that he disappeared, really, as much as it was that Baby Boomers moved onto other artists and other genres, a good portion of which we were introduced to like it or not by our children.
The Beatles might have given way to R.E.M and Tom Rush to, well, Rush.
But Tom Rush is still kicking around and has released his first studio album in 35 years -- "What I Know".
And he's still kicking around doing concerts. He was scheduled to perform outdoors in Portsmouth, N.H., at Prescott Park on Wednesday night but the concert was canceled because of the rain that has sopped New England for about a month.
But he did play several songs under a small tent at the venue, including one -- entitled "Remember" from his "Trolling for Owls" CD. It pokes fun at his age, 68, and the fact that he, like us, just can't remember certain things sometimes, like where he put his wallet, or a lunch appointment, or his organizer with the lunch appointment details. We've all been there.
Here's a video clip from the performance (the tent was not well lit):
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Tom Rush web site
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