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American Soul is a journey through the heart of a modern cowboy—raw, reflective, and built on lived experience. Across nine tracks, the album blends gritty realism with emotional storytelling, capturing the quiet moments, heartbreaks, and hard-won strength that shape a man’s character.

It opens with “Cold Coffee Mornings,” a slow-burning reflection on routine and regret, before expanding into the dreamlike hope of “The Breath Between Stars.” Songs like “River Takes the Weight” and “Backroads Built My Heart” explore loss, memory, and the places that raised us, while “Porchlight Glow” brings warmth back into the darkness.

The middle of the record hits harder—“Dirt Road Revival” and “Iron In My Chest” pulse with grit, resilience, and the heavy bass of a life lived close to the edge. “Almost Had You” dives into heartbreak deep enough to leave a scar, while the finale, “Soul Fire Rising,” lifts the listener out of the ashes with a cinematic, powerful sense of rebirth.

From stripped-down acoustic moments to full-bodied, cinematic country crescendos, American Soul captures the dust, the quiet, the storms, and the resilience of a man carving meaning from a wild world—one song at a time.

Cold Coffee Mornings

A tempest-torn folk-rock odyssey soaked in salt and bloodline thunder. scarred, whiskey-raw, and unbowed—rises from the wreckage of buried secrets . This is the roar of a soul dragged beneath the waves by ancestral ghosts, only to claw back to the surface spitting seawater and defiance.  and a final, breathless “still… alive” that lingers like lantern light on a midnight reef. For anyone who ever inherited a curse and turned it into a war cry.



Still Alive

If This Is Music

Alice's Restaurant

Alice's Restaurant Massacree

The Circle Game [Expanded & Remastered]

The Circle Game (2008 Remaster)

Kasvot Växt: í rokk

Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S.

Turtle In The Clouds

We Are Come To Outlive Our Brains

The Final Hurrah

Greenwich Village not only became a magnet for songwriters, it also attracted interpreters of folk and country blues. Nobody did it better than Tom Rush, a thoughtful, immaculate stylist, exquisitely adapting other’s material.

Tom emerged from the Boston and Cambridge scene and when he signed to Elektra had already recorded two albums for Prestige in 1963 that revealed him to be an accomplished bottleneck guitarist. His Elektra debut, Tom Rush, is simply masterful, and his version of Bukka White‘s “The Panama Limited” beyond compare.

When Rush came to record his second LP, Take A Little Walk With Me, much of his repertoire had been used. The second side of this album showed that like Bob Dylan, he was more than just a folkie, Al Kooper leading a full electric band including Bruce Langhorne and Harvey Brooks through a set of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Buddy Holly songs.

By Rush’s third and final Elektra album in 1969, he was decided to adopt a more modern approach. The Circle Game featured songs by the then unknown James Taylor, Jackson Browne and Joni Mitchell, probably the three biggest stars to be of the confessional school of song writing prevalent in the 70’s. Tom Rush's own songwriting contribution was the poignant ‘’No Regrets,” easily the definitive version of this much recorded song.

The Circle Game (2008 Remaster)

Tom Rush

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