Tom Rush - Panama Limited

Tom Rush (http://www.tomrush.com) performs one of his most requested songs "Panama Limited," "a collection of Bukka White's train songs". Performed at Humphreys By The Bay, San Diego, CA, this song appears on the DVD of Judy Collins' "Wildflower Festival", and is available from Tom's website at http://tomrush.com

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Music

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• Tom Rush
• Club 47
• live
• Panama Limited
• Bukka White
• guitar

[SkeligMichael]

Have the record with this song. I think, he´s playing a little bit to fast but nevertheless: This is one of my all time favorite songs.

[krustybaguette]

agree that the record version's better but if I'd been there for this performance I'd have been enthralled. Nothing like live performance. Hope to see TR in Scituate MA tomorrow night! Check out Doug McLeod's "New Panama Limited" for another take on this Booker White amalgam.

[whitefeet1]

"...they just stand by the track, with they hat in they hands....."

[diptwares]

I first heard this in '65. I don't know how many records, tapes, discs of it over the years I have had, and the pleasure of hearing Tom sing it a number of times. Timeless music by a timeless artist!!!

[451Andrea]

40 years later and this song still moves me to tears. Absolutely incredible. Thank you Tom for that song!!! I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Rush at a small coffeehouse performance in Monterey a few years ago, and to my surprise he plays the same guitar (Epiphone Texan) that I had as a kid. (still have it too). Just icing on the cake.

[47docrock]

@ytdsgdjgfueyxn537 i HAd not heard this song since 1969 untilI picked it up a few months ago. Had a friend, Don Shjanklin, who played this at college coffee houses in West Virginia,Don wasa great young guitrar picker singer at the time.He turned onto early Dylan, Rush, Ochs, Von Schmidt, Baez, Collins, Paxton, all of em. I agree, Iike the slowertempo and his voice is deeper on the original. still this song is just so great to hear, I miss my friends from the 60s and this song stabs my heart.

[Hypertsuna]

Saw him tonight at the Iron Horse in Northampton MA. Awesome song!

[ytdsgdjgfueyxn537]

As he plays he speeds up too much. I like the old record better.

[margarita6022]

Tom, thank you so much for being on here; have not heard Panama Ltd. by you for many years. Saw you in person many times in the old days - Phila Folk Festival, 2nd Fret, Main Point, etc. Used to be so in love w/you, (still am I guess), you and all your train whistle joins. Remember when you introduced the songs of Jackson Browne at the Main Point. But Tom you were the main point all the time. Handsome and still with a brain and talent!

[adrianosoc]

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