Tom Rush
Tom Rush ( born February 8, 1941 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) is an American folk and blues singer, songwriter and recording artist. He had his greatest popularity during the 1960s and 1970s.
Life
His father was a teacher at St. Paul 's School in Concord, New Hampshire. Tom Rush himself studied at Harvard University with an English major. During this time he concentrated more on making music and first appeared in 1961. The recordings of this period were largely versions of Scottish folk songs and folk songs from the Appalachian Mountains. He joined, among others, Club 47 (now Club Passim ) in Cambridge, where musicians such as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega and groups like The Lovin ' Spoonful her career took off, and in the " Unicorn " in Boston on.
Especially the Rolling Stone Magazine gave him good reviews and described him as a songwriter who introduces a new era. However, he had his greatest successes with new recordings of previously unknown artists and thus helped artists such as Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne and James Taylor to break through.
His 1968 work produced No Regrets is one of the standard works of folk music and was often gecovert or reinterpreted. The Walker Brothers arrived in 1975 with No Regrets in the top ten of the UK single charts.