“Child's Song” by Tom Rush

"Child's Song" turns up on Tom Rush, the American folk-rocker's self-titled album from 1970 and his eighth in the studio. It's a record where he went song-hunting among other writers, Jackson Browne, James Taylor and David Wiffen among them, and this one came from the pen of Murray McLauchlan.

Ed Freeman produced it, and the credits have Rush singing and playing acoustic guitar himself: a seasoned interpreter eight records in, putting his voice to work for somebody else's song and letting the words do the heavy lifting.

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