Tom Rush songs
Ed. Stoebenau
The first one I have heard only the beginning,
(at the end of a tape I recorded from the radio),
and has these lyrics:
You know the year of nineteen--
Sorry, that's all I have of the song. I would
like to no the name of the song, what album its
on, and if its on cd, and lyrics if possible.
The other song I believe is called "Joshua at Barbados"
or something like that. Same info as the first song.
Thanks in advance.
Ed. Stoebenau
Jim Dalin
These are both from the same album, on the Electra label,
but I forget the title ("Take a Walk With Me"?). It also
had a good rendition of Panama Limited. The first song was
something like "Galveston Flood," (but I'm not sure); the
second song is Joshua Gone Barbados by Eric Von Schmidt. I'm
pretty sure the latter was published in an old Sing Out!
Magazine issue, so it may be available in a reprint.
Folk Dude
> Hi, I want to know info on two Tom Rush songs.
>
> [- snip -]
>
> The other song I believe is called "Joshua at Barbados"
> or something like that. Same info as the first song.
That would be "Joshua Gone Barbados", written by Eric Von
Schmidt, and available on his new album called "Baby Let Me
Lay It On You" (released earlier this year from Gazell
Productions). I've also heard James Taylor perform this
song in concert.
There's a live recording of Tom Rush performing "Joshua
Gone Barbados" on his album "New Year", from Night Light
Recordings. He explains the origins of the song in the liner
notes:
"Eric Von Schmidt was one of the prime movers of the
folk music movement in Cambridge in the early '60's.
Baez and Dylan, among others, have been indebted to
him for material time and again. On a visit to Saint
Vincent's he heard a bit of local history about a political
leader who instigated a strike among the cane cutters
and then, when it turned ugly, when the knives (cutlasses)
started flashing, decided it was vacation time . . . went
to Barbados . . . stayed at the Hilton . . . drank pina
coladas . . . played a lot of golf."
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Jinxblues
However, "Joshua Gone Barbados," written by Eric Von Schmidt, is one of
the most underappreciated songs by a very gifted writer. It is available
on Eric's on album on Prestige (probably long out of print). I can't
exactly recall which TR album had this song but I encourage you to track
it down because it will be worthwhile once you find it.
dick waterman
dick waterman
jinx...@aol.com
Michae9305
He has a demo tape called "Work in Progress" that has some new cuts.
He's still promising a new CD - and his fans are still patiently
waiting.
Some of his older CD's - "Tom Rush", "Circle Game" can be found in
local CD
stores. I highly recommend his newer CD's "New Year", and "Late Night
Radio". You can order all his CD's by writing:
Night Light Recordings
Box 16
Hillsboro NH 03244
or call his Deering, NH # at 603-464-0223 (or 3776).
He won't mind - You may even get to talk to him. Ask for the songs
you are interested in. I believe they're both down really well on the
Symphony Hall CD!
Get on his mailing list for latest concert info!
Jim Fraser
>Hi, I want to know info on two Tom Rush songs.
>The first one I have heard only the beginning,
>(at the end of a tape I recorded from the radio),
>and has these lyrics:
> You know the year of nineteen--
I think this was, "Wasn't That a Mighty Storm", about the Galveston
Flood. He plays it seated, with a pocket knife for a slide. Pretty
good tune.
---Jim Fraser, j...@shore.net
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Who is this guy, anyway? Check it out!
links to guitar stuff, music, and more...
http://northshore.shore.net/~jaf/main.htm
Carl Newman
ARB
Rush and a DC bluegrass group called the Country Gentlemen in the
early to mid-sixties and it appears on a "Best Of" collection
that Elektra put out in the early seventies, just after Circle
Game came out, I think.
Joshua Gone Barbados is on the same Best Of collection. I do not
know offhad which of the original albums has it. I don't think
either song is out on cd...at least I've never been able to find
them, although I have a slightly scratchy tape of the album
which I made years ago.
Galveston Flood was also done by the Chad Mitchell Trio on the
Mighty Day on Campus album, and by the Coutnry Gentlemen. Hope
this helps.
--
70562,31...@compuserve.com
Catherine Margaret Wilson
Here's a list of Tom Rush albums and their contents:
Tom Rush at the Unicorn
Ly Cornu Records--out of print but available on cassette
from Maple Hill Productions
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
Prety Boy Floyd
Julies Blues
Talking Dust Bowl
Old Blue
Blues, Songs, Ballads
Prestige 7374
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
Got A Mind To Ramble
Prestige 7536
Dundan & 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
Tom Rush
Elektra EKL-288 (mono) EKS-7288(stereo)
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
talk a little walk with me
Elektra EKL-308(mono) EKS-7308(stereo)
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
Merrimack County
Columbia KO31306
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
Columbia KC33054
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
Available from Maple Hill Productions:
Work in Progress (Night Light)-- cassette
The Circle Game-- CD
Tom Rush: Blues, Songs and Ballads
2-record set on CD
Tom Rush (Columbia)-- CD
Tom Rush: New Year (Night Light)-- CD & cassette
The Best of Tom Rush (Columbia)--cassette
Tom Rush: Late Night Radio (Night Light)-- cassette
Tom Rush at the Unicorn (Night Light)-- cassette
Maple Hill Productions
P. O. Box 16
Hillsboro, NH 03244
(603) 464-3776
I am not affiliated with Tom Rush or Maple Hill Productions
--just a fan.
Kit Wilson
cmwi...@cats.ucsc.edu
Jim Fraser
>Galveston Flood was also done by the Chad Mitchell Trio on the
>Mighty Day on Campus album, and by the Coutnry Gentlemen. Hope
>this helps.
The Chad Mitchell tune was called, "Mighty Day". It was about the
Galveston flood, but was it the same song? Seems to me it was in a
minor key, and the tempo was fast as hell.
Brian Rost
>: However, "Joshua Gone Barbados," written by Eric Von Schmidt, is one of
>: the most underappreciated songs by a very gifted writer.
What is the background on this song, is it based on a historical
event?
--
Brian Rost
Ascom Nexion
ro...@nexen.com
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Simon van Dongen
>Subject: Re: Tom Rush songs
>Date: 11 Oct 1995 21:24:53 GMT
>Jinxblues (jinx...@aol.com) wrote:
>: Not a clue on the first song.
>: However, "Joshua Gone Barbados," written by Eric Von Schmidt, is one of
>: the most underappreciated songs by a very gifted writer. It is available
>: on Eric's on album on Prestige (probably long out of print). I can't
>: exactly recall which TR album had this song but I encourage you to track
>: it down because it will be worthwhile once you find it.
>: dick waterman
>: dick waterman
>: jinx...@aol.com
>I believe it was on an album with a name like 'A Little Walk With Me'.
>-Andrew
There is a magnificent recording of Joshua Gone Barbados on Martin
Simpson's 1981 album 'Special Agent', if you can't find the original, or
even if you can!
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Simon van Dongen
sg...@pi.net
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Nicholas Hill
>In article <45hcn5$3...@news.inc.net> clif...@it.uwp.edu (Andrew Clifford)
writes:
>>From: clif...@it.uwp.edu (Andrew Clifford)
>>Subject: Re: Tom Rush songs
>>Date: 11 Oct 1995 21:24:53 GMT
>
>>Jinxblues (jinx...@aol.com) wrote:
>>: Not a clue on the first song.
>
>>: However, "Joshua Gone Barbados," written by Eric Von Schmidt, is one of
>>: the most underappreciated songs by a very gifted writer. It is
available
>>: on Eric's on album on Prestige (probably long out of print). I can't
>>: exactly recall which TR album had this song but I encourage you to
track
>>: it down because it will be worthwhile once you find it.
>
>>: dick waterman
A stunningly beautiful version is sung by Bob Dylan on "The 'genuine'
Basement Tapes Volume 5" bootleg CD. also on this volume of 1967 home
recording with the band are great versions songs like Ian Tysons "Four
Strong Winds" & "The French Girl", "Ol' Rosin The Bow", "Nine Hundred
Miles", "The Banks Of The Royal Canal", some Hank Williams and Jonny Cash
tunes and... well you get the drift..
Nicholas Hill
Andrew Clifford
: >: However, "Joshua Gone Barbados," written by Eric Von Schmidt, is one of
....
Howie Bursen does maybe the best (technically and otherwise) arrangement
of this song on his first album (which I think is called Cider in the
Kitchen.) Also on this album are Handsome Molly, When First Unto This
Country, and The Year of Jubil-o. He is a wonderful musician, (banjo and
guitar) and has also written some pretty good songs.
-Andrew
MnM Skelly
"Take a Little Walk with Me" Electra album EKL-308(mono) or
EKS-7308(stereo)
The song as sung by the author is on "Eric Sings von Schmitt" Prestige
album 7384. The liner notes, which were written by Richard Farina in Dec
64, don't mention wether it was a true story or not, but it sounds like it
was. Richard notes read:
"Mister Joshua, went the word among the fields, he's a poor man, just like
you an' me; get him in the government, then the rich-folks see. But when
the cutters went to strike among the cane, Joshua found a yacht and sailed
out to regain lost time among the pleasures of Barbados. "Just like he
don't know," he left behind the big boys south of Kingston. Out of Sion
Hill they came; Sunny Child, the overseer, with a pistol for a name. They
cut men down with cutlasses, and all the while, "Joshua gone Barbados,
stayin' in a big hotel. People in St. Vincent's got many a sad tale to
tell."
Mike Skelly - Portsmouth New Hampshire
Michae9305
Merrimack County
Columbia KO31306
I (too) am not affiliated with Tom Rush or Maple Hill Productions
--just a fan. The originator of this info is below:
Kit Wilson
cmwi...@cats.ucsc.edu
Jim Hanmore
writes:
>>From: clif...@it.uwp.edu (Andrew Clifford)
>>Subject: Re: Tom Rush songs
>>Date: 11 Oct 1995 21:24:53 GMT
>
>>Jinxblues (jinx...@aol.com) wrote:
>>: Not a clue on the first song.
>
>>: on Eric's on album on Prestige (probably long out of print). I can't
>>: exactly recall which TR album had this song but I encourage you to track
>>: it down because it will be worthwhile once you find it.
>
>>: dick waterman
>>: jinx...@aol.com
>
>>I believe it was on an album with a name like 'A Little Walk With Me'.
>
>>-Andrew
>
>There is a magnificent recording of Joshua Gone Barbados on Martin
>Simpson's 1981 album 'Special Agent', if you can't find the original, or
>even if you can!
>
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> Simon van Dongen
> sg...@pi.net
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>
If you really want to hear a good version of Joshua Gone Barbados get yourself
a copy of Howie Bursens "Cider In The Kitchen" album. It is on the
Folk-Legacy label out of Sharon, CT. Beside a super version of the song the
album is a great collection of clawhammer banjo tunes and songs.
Cheers,
Jim Hanmore