tom rush the ciecle game mp4 download Tom Rush - The Circle Game (Reissue) (1968/1989) Artist : Tom Rush Title : The Circle Game Year Of Release : 1968/1989 Label : Elektra Genre : Folk Rock Quality : Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log) Total Time : 37:59 Total Size : 103/222 Mb (scans) WebSite : Album Preview. 1. Tin Angel (Joni Mitchell) - 3:22 2. Something In The Way She Moves (James Taylor) - 3:25 3. Urge For Going (Joni Mitchell) - 5:50 4. Sunshine, Sunshine (James Taylor) - 2:55 5. The Glory Of Love (Billy Hill) - 2:22 6. Shadow Dream Song (Jackson Browne) - 3:24 7. The Circle Game (Joni Mitchell) - 5:12 8. So Long (Charlie Rich) - 2:55 9. Rockport Sunday (Tom Rush) - 4:34 10. No Regrets (Tom Rush) - 3:50. Line-up: : Tom Rush - Guitar, Vocals Hugh Mccracken - Electric Guitar, Keyboards Don Thomas - Electric Guitar, Keyboards Jonathan Raskin - Acoustic Guitar, Bass Bruce Langhorne - Acoustic Guitar Eric Gale - Electric Guitar Joe Grimm - Saxophone Joe Mack - Saxophone Bob Bushnell - Saxophone Paul Harris - Keyboards, Orchestra Conducted Buddy Lucas - Saxophone Herb Lovelle - Drums Bernard Purdie - Drums Richie Ritz - Drums. The Circle Game. A candid and charming collection of songs that glisten as beautifully as a clear mountain stream. Singer/songwriter/poet Tom Rush had a wonderful idea in mind for a concept album, working with music business greats Arthur Gorson and Paul Harris to blend the best of the time period's songwriters. The effort results in a splendid achievement of emotionally and lyrically gripping material. Taking advantage of his resonant tenor voice and the majestic talents of a stirring crew of musicians, Rush performs wistful and ethereal versions of some of his favorite songs. Material selected includes deeply lyrical tunes such as Joni Mitchell's "Tin Angel" and "Urge for Going," and romantic songs like James Taylor's "Something in the Way She Moves." The album, titled The Circle Game, features Mitchell's radio hit single of the same name. Certainly during the '70s this album was marketed well and fared with great success among the listening public, inviting Rush into an elite group of solo singer/songwriters of the decade. Just to prove to the world that he is no fluke himself when it comes to arranging and composing, Rush succeeds with two beautifully crafted works of his own, masterfully woven and spun on the acoustic guitar, along with an endearing work of lush production featuring the brilliant efforts of conductor Paul Harris and orchestra. A must-listen for those who are sincerely curious and are seeking a good singer/songwriter talent from this period. The Circle Game [Expanded & Remastered] Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Buy the album Starting at $12.99. The Circle Game [Expanded & Remastered] Copy the following link to share it. You are currently listening to samples. Listen to over 70 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan. Listen to this album and more than 70 million songs with your unlimited streaming plans. 1 month free, then $14.99/ month. Tom Rush, MainArtist - Paul Harris, Arranger - Joni Mitchell, Writer. © 2008 Warner Music UK Ltd 2008 ℗ 1968 Elektra Entertainment Company. Tom Rush, MainArtist - JAMES TAYLOR, Writer. © 2008 Warner Music UK Ltd 2008 ℗ 1968 Elektra Entertainment Company. Tom Rush, MainArtist - Joni Mitchell, Writer. © 2008 Warner Music UK Ltd 2008 ℗ 1968 Elektra Entertainment Company. 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Listen to your purchases on our apps. Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go. My Songs (Deluxe) Chopin : Piano Concertos. Live in Boston '84 (Live 1984) Wrong End Of The Rainbow. Ripple to a Larger Ring (feat. Far Pines) Playlists. They're Calling Me Home (with Francesco Turrisi) Tea For The Tillerman² Tea For The Tillerman² It's not easy to elbow your way through the macho Music City scene, the birthplace of country music, when you're a woman. Over the years, some of them have nevertheless managed to shift lines and attitudes, like these ten pioneers and revolutionaries who have put – even stamped – their boots on Nashville's table. On 14 April 2018, Dire Straits were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Even Mark Knopfler seemed touched by this honour, hoping to be handed the award by the likes of Bob Dylan or Eric Clapton. 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Feedback, occasional random bits of conversation from stage-side, a somewhat chaotic mix—this will not be up for any engineering awards. But it has a compelling energy and takes me back to the moment, and to the era. This is one of the things music is so good at! Merrimack County Sweet Rotunda Urge for Going Who Do You Love Drivin’ Wheel Wind On the Water Mother Earth Mint Julep No Regrets Rockport Sunday Kids These Days Child Song. Tom Rush Celebrates 50 Years of Music. Recorded at Symphony Hall, Boston, in December 2012,this package contains a DVD video of much of the show as well as a CVD of music. The DVD includes never-before released interviews with Tom Rush, behind the scenes footage of the concert rehearsal, and a bonus song by David Bromberg Participants: Tom Rush, Jonathan Edwards, Buskin & Batteau, David Bromberg,Dom Flemons, Trevor Veitch, Eric Lillequist, Dean Adrien, Joe Mennonna, Marshall Rosenberg, Paul Guzzone and and other friends. DVD CONTENTS. Hot Tonight Jews Don’t Camp (Buskin & Batteau) Lancelot’s Tune (Guinevere) (Buskin & Batteau) My Love Will Keep (Jonathan Edwards) Get Together (Jonathan Edwards) My Little Lady (Dom Flemons) Your Baby Ain’t Sweet Like Mine (Dom Flemons) Statesboro Blues (David Bromberg) Drop Down Mama Urge for Going What I Know Child’s Song Drivin’ Wheel No Regrets/Rockport Sunday Who Do You Love Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm. CD CONTENTS. Hot Tonight What I Know Lancelot’s Tune/Guinevere (Buskin & Batteau) Drop Down Mama Urge for Going Statesboro Blues (David Bromberg) Your Baby Ain’t Sweet Like Mine (Dom Flemons) Child’s Song Drivin’ Wheel Get Together (Jonathan Edwards) No Regrets/Rockport Sunday Who Do You Love Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm. What I Know. Hot Tonight East Of Eden River Song Too Many Memories What I Know All A Man Can Do Fall Into The Night Casey Jones You’re Not Here With Me What An Old Lover Knows Silly Little Diddle Lonely No One Else But You One Good Man Drift Away. Produced by Jim Rooney Harmonies: Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Bramlett, and Nanci Griffith. TOM RUSH - How I Play (some of) My Favorite Songs. 10 Easy-to-Play Classics One hour 50 minute DVD $29.95 Music and Tab Enclosed. Play along with him as he personally teaches you ten of the memorable songs and guitar arrangements that have long made him one of America’s most beloved performers. You’ll learn Tom Rush originals (No Regrets, Rockport Sunday, River Song), Joni Mitchell hits (Urge for Going, Circle Game), traditional folk and blues songs (Drop Down Mama, Diamond Joe, Panama Limited), Geoff Muldaur’s instrumental Mole’s Moan and Murray McLaughlin’s compelling and timeless Child’s Song. As a bonus, Tom closes the DVD with a hilarious performance of the song Remember? Judy Collins' WILDFLOWER FESTIVAL. You can hear Tom on this DVD Concert Special Judy Collins – Wildflower Festival.Taped at Humphrey’s By the Bay in San Diego, Judy is joined by Tom, Arlo Guthrie, and Eric Andersen for a night where each singer shines in their own right and in a collaborative group of folksinging mayhem. Trolling for Owls. Makin’ the Best of a Bad Situation Moving to Wyoming* Shooting Coyotes* A Cowboy’s Paean Getting Married in Italy* If I Had a Boat Songs You Can’t Do Any More* Let’s Talk Dirty in Hawaiian Busted by the Boston Globe* Cell Phones and Beepers* Remember? Talking Western* Little Dogs* State of Arkansas Old Blevins New Hampshire Neighbors* Duncan and Brady. Tom’s songs and stories (*) recorded LIVE! Live at Symphony Hall, Boston. Merrimack County On The Road Again Kind, Kind Lovin’ Louisiana Eyes Jazzman / Jonah The Dreamer Jamaica, Say You Will Wasn’t That A Mighty Storm Late Night Radio Anna Blow, Whistle, Blow Urge For Going Beam Me Up Scotty. This CD consists of selected cuts from the album Tom Rush: New Year (1982) and from the NPR radio show Late Night Radio (1982). The latter has never before been released on CD. Merrimack County / Ladies Love Outlaws. Remastered British release (2001, Imported) contains two complete early Columbia albums: Merrimack County (1972) and Ladies Love Outlaws (1974) . MERRIMACK COUNTY. Kids These Days Mink Julip Mother Earth Jamaica Say You Will Merrimack County II Gypsy Boy Wind On The Water Roll Away The Grey Seems The Songs Gone Down River. LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS. Ladies Love Outlaws Hobo’s Mandolin Indian Woman from Wichita Maggie Desperados Waiting For The Train Claim On Me Jenny Lynn Black Magic Gun No Regrets One Day I Walk. The very best of TOM RUSH: No regrets. San Francisco Bay Blues Mobile-Texas Line Panama Limited On The Road Again Galveston Flood Joshua Gone Barbados Urge For Going No Regrets Lost My Drivin’ Wheel Child’s Song Merrimac County Kids These Days Mother Earth Ladies Love Outlaws The Dreamer Jamaica, Say You Will River Song. Tom Rush / Wrong End of the Rainbow. WRONG END OF THE RAINBOW. Wrong End Of The Rainbow Biloxi Merrimack County Riding On A Railroad Came To See Me Yesterday In The Merry Month Of Starlight Sweet Baby James Rotunda Jazzman Gnostic Serenade. Driving Wheel Rainy Day Man Drop Down Mama Old Man Song Lullaby These Days Wild Child Colors Of The Sun Livin’ In The Country Child’s Song. Remastered British release (2000) contains two complete early Columbia albums: Tom Rush and Wrong End of the Rainbow . Imported. Tom Rush - Work in Progress. All A Man Can Do I Believe In You Shoo-rah! Shoo-rah! Wild Irish Rose No One Else But You Who Do You Love? Tom Rush: Blues, Songs and Ballads. Duncan And Brady (song) I Don’t Want Your Millions Mister San Francisco Bay Blues Mole’s Moan Rye Whiskey Big Fat Woman Nine Pound Hammer Diamond Joe Mobile-Texas Line Joe Turner Every Day In The Week Alabama Bound More Pretty Girls Sister Kate Original Talking Blues Pallet On The Floor Drop Down Mama Rag Mama Barb’ry Allen Cocaine Come Back Baby Stackerlee Baby Please Don’t Go. A double CD comprising tracks from the original LPs Blues, Songs & Ballads and Got A Mind to Ramble , though ‘Orphan’s Blues’ and ‘Just A Closer Walk With Thee’, from the latter are omitted. Tom Rush: Late Night Radio. Late Night Radio Blow, Whistle, Blow Annette* The Boy With The Violin* Beam Me Up Scotty Old New England* Jazzman Jonah Swallow Song* City Of New Orleans Jamaica, Say You Will On The Road Again. Sadly this album is no longer available on CD. Selected tracks also appear on Tom Rush: Live at Symphony Hall Boston. TOM RUSH: NEW YEAR. Anna Louisiana Eyes Merrimack County Gold On The River The Dreamer Joshua Gone Barbados Kind, Kind Lovin’ Drivin’ Wheel Wasn’t That A Mighty Storm Urge For Going. This album was recorded live at Symphony Hall in Boston in 1982, and released on LP and cassette. Re-released on CD in 2012. The Best of Tom Rush. Drop Down, Mama Mink Julip Lost My Drivin’ Wheel Hobo’s Mandolin These Days Mother Earth Ladies Love Outlaws Kids These Days Starlight Rotunda No Regrets Child’s Song. Released on LP and cassette, sadly no longer available. A big thank you to Klaus Hiltscher for his collection of high rez album scans. Ladies Love Outlaws. Ladies Love Outlaws Hobo’s Mandolin Indian Woman from Wichita Maggie Desperadoes Waiting For The Train Claim On Me Jenny Lynn Black Magic Gun No Regrets One Day I Walk. Reissued as a double album CD with Merrimack County by Beat Goes On Records in 2001. Merrimack County. Kids These Days Mink Julip Mother Earth Jamaica Say You Will Merrimack County II Gypsy Boy Wind On The Water Roll Away The Grey Seems The Songs Gone Down River. Re-released in 2001 as a double CD with the album “Ladies Love Outlaws”. WRONG END OF THE RAINBOW. Wrong End Of The Rainbow Biloxi Merrimack County Riding On A Railroad Came To See Me Yesterday In The Merry Month Starlight Sweet Baby James Rotunda Jazzman Gnostic Serenade. Tom Rush. Driving Wheel Rainy Day Man Drop Down Mama Old Man Song Lullaby These Days Wild Child Colors Of The Sun Livin’ In The Country Child’s Song. A big thank you to Klaus Hiltscher for the high rez scans from his collection. Classic Rush. On The Road Again The Cuckoo Who Do You Love Joshua Gone Barbados Shadow Dream Song Urge For Going Galveston Flood Love’s Made A Fool Of You No Regrets/Rockport Sunday Something In The Way She Moves The Circle Game. THE CIRCLE GAME. Tin Angel Something In The Way She Moves Urge For Going Sunshine Sunshine The Glory Of Love Shadow Dream Song The Circle Game So Long Rockport Sunday No Regrets. Tom’s classic, best-selling album! Remastered and rereleased on CD for its 40th anniversary. TAKE A LITTLE WALK WITH ME. You Can’t Tell A Book By The Cover Who Do You Love Love’s Made A Fool Of You Too Much Monkey Business Money, Honey On The Road Again Joshua Gone Barbados Statesboro Blues Turn Your Money Green Sugar Babe Galveston Flood. This album was reissued in 2001 by Collector’s Choice. TOM RUSH. Long John If Your Man Gets Busted Do-Re-Mi Milk Cow Blues The Cuckoo Black Mountain Blues Poor Man Solid Gone When She Wants Good Lovin’ I’d Like To Know Jelly Roll Baker Windy Bill Panama Limited. This album was reissued in 2009 by Collector’s Choice. BLUES, SONGS & BALLADS. Alabama Bound More Pretty Girls Sister Kate Original Talking Blues Pallet On The Floor Drop Down Mama Rag Mama Barb’ry Allen Cocaine Come Back Baby Stackerlee Baby Please Don’t Go. This album is no longer available in its original form, but has been reissued by Fantasy Records on a double CD titled “Blues Songs & Ballads”. Features Fritz Richmond on washtub bass. GOT A MIND TO RAMBLE. Duncan & Brady I Don’t Want Your Millions Mister San Francisco Bay Blues Mole’s Moan Orphan’s Blues Rye Whiskey Big Fat Woman Nine Pound Hammer Diamond Joe Just A Closer Walk With Thee Mobile-Texas Line Joe Turner Every Day In The Week. Featuring Fritz Richmond on washtub bass. This album is no longer available in its original form, but has been re-released by Fantasy Records on a double CD titled “Blues Songs and Ballads”. Interestingly there are two versions of this album. A year after it’s original release the album was reissued in stereo (new technology at the time), with refreshed cover art and the title “Mind Rambling”. TOM RUSH AT THE UNICORN. Ramblin’ On My Mind San Francisco Bay Blues The Old 97 Every Night When The Sun Goes Down Walkin’ Blues Make Love To You Poor Man Orphan’s Blues Pretty Boy Floyd Julie’s Blues Talking Dust Bowl Old Blue. Tom Rush, guitar and vocals with Fritz Richmond on washtub bass. This album was re-released for the first time on CD by Night Light Recordings in 2012. On His 80th Birthday, Musician Tom Rush Reflects On A Career That's Been '99% Magic' It was the summer of 1970, and Harvard grad Tom Rush found himself barreling across Canada on a train carrying the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers and other hippie-musicians, bluesmen and folkies. Billed as a Canadian Woodstock, the Festival Express — loaded with an onboard film crew, impromptu jam-sessions and booze — rambled from Toronto to Calgary, stopping for concerts along the way. Legend has it that at one point, like his Casey Jones, Jerry Garcia was driving that train, high on cocaine. (Rush can’t remember.) "We drank the train dry about 12 hours out of Toronto. We made them stop at some little prairie town and bought everything — every single bottle — in the local liquor store,” Rush recalls. The motley crew clamored off in Calgary, “where the promoters had rented the local gymnasium swimming pool for us to go swimming. Everybody, of course, wanted to go skinny dipping," Rush said. “The officials in charge of the pool were horrified. But it was our pool; they couldn’t stop us. They did have one rule: anyone with long hair had to wear a bathing cap. Which was everybody. “My brain is permanently scarred by the sight of Leslie West of Mountain coming out of the changing room wearing nothing but two bathing caps — one over his head, and the other upside-down over his beard,” says Rush, in a phone interview from his Rockport, Massachusetts studio. And this is the fun of talking to Rush. A raconteur at heart, the singer-songwriter is full of stories like this. In pre-pandemic days, it was half the reason to see him live — the other half, of course, were tear-jerkers like “No Regrets,” his famous covers of Joni Mitchell's “Urge for Going,” Murray McLauchlan's “Child's Song,” Jackson Browne's “These Days.” But now, with no venues open, his stories and songs are part of his new “Rockport Sundays” subscription series. Via Patreon, subscribers can see Rush perform each Sunday. The folk icon — who introduced the world to Mitchell, Browne and James Taylor on his seminal album “The Circle Game” — turned 80 on Feb. 8. Now living in Kittery, Maine, the New Hampshire-born musician reflected on a wild year (including a COVID-19 diagnosis) and wild years past. Lauren Daley: So tell me about “Rockport Sundays.” Tom Rush: Every Sunday I send out a video clip of me at the kitchen table singing. Some Sundays I’ll tell stories from the road — skinny dipping with Janis Joplin; Clint Eastwood and the hashish brownie. What’s the Clint Eastwood story? I was living in downtown Greenwich Village, and a fan had sent me a box of brownies, with a note that said, “One is loaded.” I thought, “How do you load one brownie? This is baloney. They’re just brownies.” Well, of course, you make two pans. So I ate most of one, but it tasted funny and I decided I wouldn’t finish it. I sped off on foot across Washington Square Park to go to this record release party and halfway, I stopped — I couldn’t remember where I was, where I was going, or why I was going there. After 10 minutes, I headed off down a side street; there were all these lights and cameras, and I’m standing there trying to figure out what’s going on. There’s a barricade around a piece of sidewalk in front of a building, and there’s a crowd, and the door bangs open of this brownstone, a woman runs out screaming. A couple seconds later, Clint Eastwood comes out chasing her. And that’s when it got weird. Some guy from the crowd leaps over the barricade and cold-cuts Clint Eastwood, knocks him to the ground. It was in the newspapers the next day. [They were shooting a movie.] [Laughs] Wow. So you also had quite the 2020. What was your experience with COVID-19? My last show was March 10 in Florida, and I started having symptoms on March 17. I think I picked it up on the plane home, because I was hanging out with some people in West Palm Beach and none of them got it. It was about five days of getting worse and worse, [then] I tested positive. I never had the cough or the respiratory stuff, or the fevers. I was just exhausted, aching all over, slept about 20 hours a day for the worst days. At the end of two weeks, I was about 90% better. It’s such a weird virus. Some people have no symptoms, other people die. And everything in between. A little later, I was having heart palpitations. They put a heart monitor on me. On a Friday at 5:30 p.m., my doctor called and said: I want you to go to the emergency room. Get an ambulance to bring you to Mass General now. I said, “What, wait? What’s going on?” He said, “We’re concerned you might have an event.” I said, “What sort of event are we talking about?” He said, “The technical term is ‘sudden cardiac death.’" I said, “You could at least say it in Latin. Come on. At these prices?” [Laughs] Oh my god. But I did not do what he instructed. I went back to my place in Kittery, Maine, had a nice dinner, and went in the next day. Basically they had discovered, quite accidentally, that my heart rate was going down to 23 beats a minute from time to time. It was totally unrelated to the palpitations that got me the heart monitor. But they put a pacemaker in, and now I’m pretty much invincible. Wow. So was this an aftereffect of COVID-19? I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure. That’s the other bizarre thing about the virus: people have all kinds of delayed effects. How do you feel now? I feel fine. About to turn 80. The Wang [Theatre] was going to host a birthday party for me with all kinds of guests, so that will be delayed, or may not happen. In the meantime, [performing virtually] gives me an audience. I think all performers miss having an audience. What’s the hardest part of being a musician right now? There are layers to it. I had a year’s worth of shows canceled — this is how I make a living, and all of the sudden that faucet is turned off. [Live music returning] depends on vaccine rollout. We also need people to be confident in it. So I’m hoping everybody gets vaccines and feels they can go out without worrying. But it’s going to take a while. You mentioned your birthday — have you been reflecting back on your career lately? No, but I probably should, shouldn’t I? You’re making me feel guilty, Lauren. [Laughs] Reflecting now, do you have favorite songs that stands out? My favorite song is always the next one. But I think I’ve written some of the best stuff of my career in the last few years. I wrote a song for my daughter Siena when she was like 2. I forgot all about it. When she turned 19, I happened upon the lyrics, and when she turned 20, I set it to music, “Siena’s Song.” . “No Regrets” put two of my kids through college. That got a lot of covers over the years — Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, even U2. So what was it like starting out in Boston? You were at Harvard. I arrived in Cambridge in the fall of ’59 as a freshman, delighted to find there was a vibrant folk music scene. I spent way too much time at Club 47 [now Passim] according to my parents. And they were probably right from an academic standpoint, because I came very close to flunking out. I had a radio show at Harvard’s station, and went around to the hootenannies, looking for guests. I discovered you could get in for free if you had a guitar. Then I discovered you could get in for free if you had a guitar case. So I’d put a six-pack in the case and head off to the hootenanny. I got caught one night at The Golden Vanity [where they called me up] onstage. I borrowed a guitar. I don’t remember what I did because I was so nervous. Apparently it went well enough, because the owner called me back a couple weeks later, and one thing led to another. Then [I started] doing coffeehouses around Massachusetts, then around New England, started to travel further and further. American folk and blues singer and songwriter Tom Rush at Club 47 Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 1963. (John Byrne Cooke Estate/Getty Images) You introduced people to songs by Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne. How did you get on to them so early? Joni, I met in Detroit at a place called The Chess Mate. She and her [then] husband had been playing there on a regular basis. She had just started writing songs and wanted me to hear some of them, and maybe record them. She did a quick guest-set, and she just knocked me over. “Urge for Going” was one of the songs she sang that night, and I was just dumbfounded that this little slip of a girl would be singing a song that was so compelling and gorgeous. She sent me a tape a few weeks later with six more songs, one of which was “The Circle Game.” She apologized for it on the tape: “I just finished writing this, it’s not much good, I’m sorry.” And I ended up naming the album after it. Wow. James, I almost met a bunch of times. I had a roommate when I was living in Cambridge, Zach Wiesner [bassist for] this guy James Taylor, who had a band called The Flying Machine. Zach kept telling me I should really hear this guy. And I kept saying, “Zach, will you just pick up your room?” A couple years later, my producer Paul Rothchild at Elektra said, “There’s a songwriter you should get together with.” We got James and me up to the Elektra offices. We sat on the floor and James sang a bunch of songs into a tape-recorder. I ended up doing a couple of his songs on “The Circle Game.” Jackson Browne was not a singer-songwriter, he was just a songwriter at that point. Elektra was pumping me up with his demos. All three appeared for the first time in public on “The Circle Game” album. I wasn’t looking to discover anybody — I just wanted to meet girls. [Laughs] Are there any other moments that stand out, looking back? Meeting Joni was one. There’s been a whole lot of magical moments. That’s why I love performing live. It’s never really like work. There are moments when it’s hard work — mostly the traveling part. But the time on stage is 99% magic. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Related: Culture Writer Lauren Daley is a freelance culture writer for The ARTery.