Tom Rush review (preview) for a show at the Ark in Ann Arbor Michigan

Tom Rush may not be as well known as some fellowveterans of Club 47 in 1960s Cambridge, MA--people like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and JudyCollins. Yet he's second to none in terms of hisimpact down through the years. Rush's threealbums for Elektra in the 1960s were keyfounding documents of the entire singer-songwriter concept, and he's influenced everyonefrom James Taylor to Garth Brooks. A performerwith an abiding love of being in front of anaudience, Rush is a rib-tickling storyteller, anexpressive singer, and a guitarist capable ofreal melancholy. He's an Ark favorite, and, saysthe Chicago Tribune, he's "probably the only manalive who should be allowed to sing JoniMitchell songs." Tom Rush is, in short, folkroyalty.