Wrong End of the Rainbow
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Wrong End of the Rainbow is the 1970 album from pioneer Folk rock
musician Tom Rush
. The music on this album, his second in 1970, tends to lean more torward the Country rock
style.
Folk rock
Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s...
musician Tom Rush
Tom Rush
Tom Rush is an American folk and blues singer, songwriter, musician and recording artist.- Life and career :Rush was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher at St. Paul's School, in Concord, New Hampshire. Tom began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University after...
. The music on this album, his second in 1970, tends to lean more torward the Country rock
Country rock
Country rock is sub-genre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock with country. The term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with Bob Dylan and The Byrds; reaching its greatest...
style.
Track listing
- "Wrong End of the Rainbow" (Tom Rush, Trevor VeitchTrevor VeitchTrevor Veitch is a Canadian musician/record producer who has worked behind the scenes on many pop trends from the 1960s to the present. He is mostly known for his involvement in the popular 60s folk rock group, 3's a Crowd...
) 2:48 - "Biloxi" (Jesse WinchesterJesse WinchesterJesse Winchester is a musician and songwriter who was born and raised in the southern United States. To avoid the Vietnam War draft he moved to Canada in 1967, which is where and when he began his career as a solo artist. His highest charting recordings were of his own tunes, "Yankee Lady" in 1970...
) 4:40 - "Merrimack County" (Tom Rush, Trevor Veitch) 2:50
- "Riding on a Railroad" (James TaylorJames TaylorJames Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
) 5:47 - "Paddy West" (Arranged and Adapted by Tom Rush) :19
- "Came to See Me Yesterday in the Merry Month of" (Ray O'Sullivan) 1:43
- "Starlight" (Tom Rush) 4:38
- "Sweet Baby JamesSweet Baby James (song)"Sweet Baby James" is a song written and recorded by James Taylor which serves as the opening and title track from his 1970 breakthrough album Sweet Baby James...
" (James Taylor) 3:16 - "Rotunda" (Tom Rush, Trevor Veitch) 3:22
- "Jazzman" (Ed Holstein) 2:33
- "Gnostic Serenade" (William HawkinsWilliam Hawkins (songwriter and poet)William Alfred Hawkins is a songwriter, poet, musician and journalist, most notable for his contributions in the 1960s to Canadian folk rock music and to Canadian poetry...
) 4:52
Personnel
- Tom RushTom RushTom Rush is an American folk and blues singer, songwriter, musician and recording artist.- Life and career :Rush was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher at St. Paul's School, in Concord, New Hampshire. Tom began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University after...
- guitar, vocals - Trevor VeitchTrevor VeitchTrevor Veitch is a Canadian musician/record producer who has worked behind the scenes on many pop trends from the 1960s to the present. He is mostly known for his involvement in the popular 60s folk rock group, 3's a Crowd...
- acoustic guitar, electric guitar, dulcimer, vocals - David BrombergDavid BrombergDavid Bromberg is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. Bromberg has an eclectic style, playing bluegrass, blues, folk, jazz, country and western, and rock and roll equally well. He is known for his quirky, humorous lyrics, and the ability to play rhythm and lead guitar at the...
- pedal steel guitar - Paul Armin - violin, viola
- Bob Boucher - bass
- John LockeJohn Locke (musician)John Tilden Locke was an American rock keyboardist and a member of the rock group Spirit. Locke was also a member of the band Nazareth in the early 1980s....
- organ, piano - Erik Robertson - organ, piano
- Brent TitcombBrent TitcombBrent Arthur Titcomb is a Canadian actor and musician. He played the voice of Sleazy, Mok's sidekick, in 1983's Rock & Rule, and additional voices for the The Care Bears Movie in 1985. His son is singer Liam Titcomb...
- harmonica - Dave Lewis - drums, percussion
Production
- Producer: David Briggs
- Recording Engineer: Jim Reeves
- Arranger: Ed Freeman
- Liner Notes: n/a
- Photography: unknown