“Urge for Going” by Tom Rush

Joni Mitchell wrote "Urge for Going", and Tom Rush put it on his 1968 album The Circle Game, backed by a crack session crew under producer Arthur Gorson. Paul Harris arranged it and played keyboards; the guitars come from Rush, Bruce Langhorne, Eric Gale, Hugh McCracken and Don Thomas, with Bernard "Pretty" Purdie on drums, Jonathan Raskin on bass and classical guitar, and Joe Grimm and Buddy Lucas on saxophone.

For all that firepower the song never loses its hush. Rush sings it in a warm, unhurried voice, and the restlessness in that title blows through like a cold wind at the window: a folk song dressed in a surprisingly lush coat.

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