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Blues, Songs and Ballads | 
 enlarge | Artist: Tom Rush
Label: Fantasy
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 61420
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.6 x 0.5
MPN: 24709
UPC: 252182409250
EAN: 0025218240925
ASIN: B000000XF5
Release Date: October 11, 1991
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Duncan and Brady - Tom Rush, Rush, Tom | | • | I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister - Tom Rush, Garland | | • | San Francisco Bay Blues - Tom Rush, Fuller, Jesse | | • | Mole's Moan - Tom Rush, Muldaur, Maria | | • | Rye Whiskey - Tom Rush, Traditional | | • | Big Fat Woman - Tom Rush, Von Schmidt | | • | Nine Pound Hammer - Tom Rush, Travis, Merle | | • | Diamond Joe - Tom Rush, Traditional | | • | Mobile-Texas Line - Tom Rush, Carr, Leroy | | • | Joe Turner - Tom Rush, Broonzy, Big Bill | | • | Every Day in the Week - Tom Rush, Anderson, Pink | | • | Alabama Bound - Tom Rush, Traditional | | • | More Pretty Girls Than One - Tom Rush, Traditional | | • | Sister Kate - Tom Rush, Piron | | • | Original Talking Blues - Tom Rush, Traditional | | • | Pallet on the Floor - Tom Rush, Traditional | | • | Drop Down Mama - Tom Rush, Estes, Sleepy John | | • | Rag Mama - Tom Rush, Fuller, Jesse | | • | Barb'ry Allen - Tom Rush, Traditional | | • | Cocaine - Tom Rush, Traditional | | • | Come Back Baby - Tom Rush, Traditional | | • | Stackerlee - Tom Rush, Traditional | | • | Baby Please Don't Go - Tom Rush, Traditional |
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| Customer Reviews:
 washtub bass August 25, 2006
_eam 0 n_ (Dublin, Ireland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rush's beautiful guitar picking style and his deep voice are peerless. He won't win plaudits for orginality or breaking moulds but if you're tired of folk music full of nasal whines and sloppy finger-pricking Tom is your only man. Some poeple may find this twee or too easy-going but I can't give it less than five starts as to me it is perfect.
The thing I like most about Tom Rush is the emotion he puts in the guitar playing. His voice too sounds like of sad a lot of the time but still comes across like somone who would actually be good craic!
The production on this album is great too. Just a voice, a guitar a washtub bass, and harmonica.
Just in the nick of time January 26, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was going through my LP collection the other day and tried to play my copy of this album. My, how bad they sounded as I've just about worn it through over the years. I heard Tom live many years ago and have been a fan ever since. I was overjoyed to find that this recording as well as some of his others was now out on CD. This album belongs in everyones collection of Folk classics.
Sings and plays his way into your memory, for good! July 2, 2002
Phil Rogers (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yep, this is definitely one of the best of the best. And it's just Tom, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, backed up by [who was it?], Mitch or Bruce somebody or other on gut bucket, also known as washtub bass. Tom was young at the time he made this, but sounds like a real old-timer. At the time these two albums were made, he was one of the main characters in the Cambridge (Mass.) folk revival, along with the Baez sisters, Jackie Washington, Eric Von Schmidt, Debbie Green. Eric Andersen, and the like. This one starts out like a gunshot with "Duncan and Brady", and basically never lets up. Rush mixes pathos and humor and plenty of other assorted moods and reveries. The fellow can sing and play with the best of them. Check out the wonderful slide guitar playing on "Rye Whiskey". And he almost chews/ruminates on his words, with his terrific sounding, relaxed baritone voice. When he tells (sings) a story, you get lost in the believability of it. It's awesome, really. As of 3-4 years ago, Rush was still tremendous in concert, and his banter and joke telling are as good as his playing and singing. He can be truly hilarious, make you nearly fall off your seat a' laughing. I'd say he's as good a showman and interpreter of old tunes as Michael Cooney, but that's a tough contest given the fact that they inhabit somewhat different (though not too) emotional dimensions.
 Nostalgia ain't enough June 28, 2001
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
After playing it I realized that these songs have been done much better by other musicians and this really served as a portal to more hard core traditional folk music for me. It is nice to have "Mole's Moan" which was just everywhere you turned in Boston at the time. Unfortunately that time as expressed on this set is dated.
A Must-Have for your Folk Collection May 28, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a truly delightful set of songs! A friend taped this for me back in the early eighties, and I wore the tape out within a year or two, and I never could find another copy of the album. Nevertheless, I'd find myself singing the songs anyway; they never seemed to leave me. And when I finally found the CD--hallelujah!--it was as if I'd never been without it. From start to finish, this is a great song set: hilarious at times, moving at others, and always delivered by Rush expertly. A supremely underrated work that won't disappoint you.
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