No Regrets: The Very Best Of Tom Rush

Artist: Tom Rush
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 074646586020
EAN: 0074646586020
ASIN: B00001X58R

Release Date: 1999-10-05

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Tracks:

San Fransisco 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

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Customer Reviews:

Can it get any Better?.......2006-07-14

I have been a long time fan of Tom Rush having 5 of his albums on vinyl. It was time to have his most popular songs on CD without the scratches and pops. I couldn't resist spending the money on Tom Rush - Tom Rush and The Circle Game. Now my life is complete. All are 5 stars!

Good Career Overview.......2003-05-12

Containing a generous helping of 17 songs, "No Regrets" provides an accurate career overview for Tom Rush. The disc is chronologically ordered, starting in the early 1960s and going all the way through the late 1990s. Rush started out doing an accoustic combination of folk and blues, and by the early 1970s had smoothed his style to the classic singer-songerwriter pose that artists like Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot would later have so much success with.

The early stuff (about the first five tracks) sounds rawer than the far more polished later material. Rush hit his creative peak around the time that the gorgeously lush title track of this album was recorded, and the song stands out as the best of his career. Other excellent tunes include "Joshua Gone Barbados," "Lost My Driving Wheel," "Urge for Going" and the cover of Browne's "Jamacia Say You Will." Some of the more modern songs are weaker, however, and overall you get the sense that ultimately Rush was creatively about one step behind peers such as John Prine.

Overall, a decent, moderately-priced single disc anthology from a second tier singer-songwriter.

A Folk Masterpiece from A Folk Legend.......2002-11-29

What could I say that others have already said about Tom Rush. He's one of this genre's most profilic singer-songwriters. His music touches you - makes you wonder, makes sense. I don't know where my life would be without Tom Rush, really. Sometimes, when the chips are down (In the dip) I play one of his LP's and my situation gets better. I guess that's the power of music. New fans who come across this post should start off with this collection. It's a fine gathering of songs from his long and storied career. Then, see him in concert. You won't forget it. JG P.S. - I don't know of anyone who could do Joni's "The Circle Game" better than Tom Rush..- Wait, that's his song. JG

Loses Its Way for About Five Cuts.......2002-11-11

This fine collection gets penalized one star because the five cuts beginning with Kids These Days and ending with the over-exposed Jamaica Say You Will by the way over-praised Jackson Browne are very weak, overlong (The Dreamer), preachy (Mother Earth), or a bad try at doing Willie Nelson (Ladies Love Outlaws). And where, by the way, is Circle Game? Those quibbles aside, you get a dozen superb songs here, beginning with San Francisco Bay Blues which sounds like it was recorded in Tom's living room and is all the more refreshing for it in today's overproduced musical world. Panama Limited is, of course, perhaps THE classic train song, with one of folk's saddest final lines, "she's gone everywhere but home." Rush's version of Joshua Gone Barbados rivals Johnny Cash's in this story of a labor leader sellout. No Regrets is, well, No Regrets. You can't hear it often enough. Child's Song is bittersweet leaving home and was new to me. River Song proves contemporary Rush to be as strong a singer and writer as he was three decades ago. I play this CD a lot and so will you.

If you like folk music long and mellow..........2002-02-20

then, this collection is for you. There are 17 songs, and six of them take more than five minutes each. Only six selections are less than four minutes in length. Tom Rush is misnamed...the man is NEVER in a rush to finish a song. That's not all bad, because he has a great voice and is a fine guitar player...but eight and a half minutes for "Panama Limited", and nearly five and a half for "Lost my drivin' wheel" and nearly seven minutes for "The Dreamer" begin to wear a bit, even on fans like me. Back in the days (1964-71, approximately) of college, and post-college hippiedom, I owned four Tom Rush records. None stank, but "Circle Game" was the class act, and I think it still rates one star above this collection, even with far fewer songs. This CD is something you want to play while driving 100 miles straight, after dark or before dawn...not lethargic enough to put you to sleep, but mellow enough not to distract you from the needed attention to the road. Tom's "On the Road Again" is NOT the familiar Willie Nelson song, so don't expect that. My favorites here are "Galveston Flood"; "Joshua Gone Barbados"; "Urge for Going"; "No Regrets"; "Child's Song" and his recent "River Song." If this collection had substituted "Circle Game" and "These Days" and "I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister" for some of the overlong titles I mentioned early in this review, I would have given it five stars. As is, it's great if you are already a fan. If you want to convert someone, however, buy the original "Circle Game" offering. As other reviewers have noted when discussing that CD, there are three or four songs on it that are perfection personified.

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