The Circle Game
His best-known Elektra album, with songs by Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne and his own "No Regrets".
Tom Rush, 1968
- Released
- April 1968
- Label
- Elektra
- Producer
- Arthur Gorson
- Length
- 38:16
The Circle Game was produced by Arthur Gorson, with Bruce Botnick and Brooks Arthur engineering and Jac Holzman supervising. Paul Harris played keyboards and arranged and conducted, and the players included Bruce Langhorne, Eric Gale, Hugh McCracken and Bernard Purdie. Songs by Mitchell are "Tin Angel", "Urge for Going" and the title song, and Taylor's "Something in the Way She Moves" and "Sunshine, Sunshine" and Browne's "Shadow Dream Song" are here too. Rush wrote "Rockport Sunday" and "No Regrets". The cover photograph by Linda Eastman, later McCartney, is of Rush's then-girlfriend Jill Lumpkin.
It spent 14 weeks on the Billboard 200 and peaked at 68 on June 8, 1968. AllMusic gave it four and a half stars, and a 40th anniversary edition appeared on Rhino on May 9, 2008.
Track listing
- Tin Angel3:22
- Something in the Way She Moves3:25
- Urge for Going5:50
- Sunshine, Sunshine2:55
- The Glory of Love2:22
- Shadow Dream Song3:24
- The Circle Game5:12
- So Long2:55
- Rockport Sunday4:34
- No Regrets3:50
Personnel
- Tom Rush guitar, vocals
- Paul Harris keyboards, arranger, conductor
- Bruce Langhorne acoustic guitar
- Bernard Purdie drums
More from Tom Rush
The Very Best of Tom Rush: No Regrets (1999)
Where to go next
Reference
- The Circle Game on Wikipedia Tracklist, personnel and reception.
Sources
- The Circle Game (album), Wikipedia