LEGENDARY FOLK MUSIC ARTISTS
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T O M P A X T O N
AND
J O H N M c C U T C H E O N
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John McCutcheon and Tom Paxton have been pals for decades, but it was COVID and Zoom that turned them into a songwriting team. Every Monday at 2PM they’d tell jokes, reminisce about old friends, and, of course, talk lots of sports.
What happens when two of folk music’s most beloved and prolific songwriters join forces? Songs about history, the news, baseball, cowboys, America, love, the remembered, the forgotten. The arrangements are compelling, the production pristine, and the performances stunning. From the stirring “Ukrainian Now” to the hilarious “Same Old Crap,” the immigrant story of “In America” to the heart stopping finale, “Together,” each song shines as would be expected of this partnership.
John McCutcheon & Tom Paxton together have seeded the folk music landscape with hundreds of songs, sung by thousands for decades.
With the album ‘Together’, they add another bunch of great new ones to the repertoire of our time. And, given the bounty of those Monday afternoons, this is only the beginning.
THE LATEST ALBUM
BY
and
John McCutcheon
entitled
TOGETHER
The long-awaited collaboration between two of folk music's most beloved and prolific songwriters. The COVID pandemic finally brought these two old friends together via weekly Zoom cowriting sessions. This fourteen-song collection, slated for a October 13th 2023 release on Appalsongs Records, barely scratches the surface of the hundred-or-so songs John & Tom came up with. With pristine production and world-class musicianship, the songs cover ground from Ukraine to Ellis Island to Shakey's Pizza to a cowboy campfire.
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Tour Dates
11/19/2023 - ONLIINE SHOW! The Gratitude Attitude
a Celebration of Thanksgiving
Smoke Rise, GA
12/2/2023 - Harwich Cultural Center
204 Sisson Rd., Harwich, MA
12/3/2023 - Old Sloop Coffeehouse
12 School Street, Rockport, MA
12/10/2023 - Victory Christian Center
Holiday Concert with Atlanta Pops Orchestra
208 Victory Circle, Ellijay, GA
12/17/2023 - ONLINE SHOW! A John McCutcheon Holiday Concert
with special guests!
Smoke Rise, GA
1/5/2024 - Sofia Center for the Arts
2700 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, CA
1/6/2024 - Center for the Arts
314 W Main St, Grass Valley, CA
1/8/2024 - Sebastiani Theater
476 First Street East, Sonoma, CA
1/9/2024 - Modesto Church of the Brethren
my annual benefit concert for Modesto Peace/Life Center
2301 Woodland Ave., Modesto, CA
1/11/2024 - UU Church of Fresno
my annual visit to Fresno!
2672 East Alluvial Ave, Fresno, CA
1/12/2024 - World Records
2815 F Street, Bakersfield, CA
1/13/2024 - Devil's Mountain Coffeehouse
Mt. Diablo UU Church, 55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek, CA
1/14/2024 - Freight & Salvage
2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA
1/15/2024 - St. James Episcopal Church
37051 Cabrillo Terrace, Fremont, CA
2/2/2024 - Eddie's Attic
my annual hometown show!
515-B North McDonough Street, Decatur, GA
2/3/2024 - Craddock Center
my annual show to benefit my local literacy/storytelling center
186 Fred Craddock Drive, Cherry Log, GA
2/4/2024 - Rialton Room at the Indigo
a return to the great city of Athens!
500 College AV, Athens, GA
TBA
2/16/2024 - Ayurprana Listening Room
a new venue in Asheville!
312 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC
2/17/2024 - Tree of Life Coffeehouse
Tree of Life Congregation, 6719 N Trenholm Road, Columbia, SC
2/24/2024 - Plymouth Congregational Church
202 North Clifton, Wichita, KS
2/29/2024 - The West
319 North Central Avenue, Duluth, MN
3/1/2024 - 1st Presbyterian Church
a return to the nearest town to my Alma Mater, St. John's U!
340 5th AV So., St. Cloud, MN
3/3/2024 - Cedar Cultural Center
416 Cedar Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN
4/20/2024 - Dominican University Performing Arts Center
with Carrie Newcomer
7900 Division Street, River Forest, IL
4/24/2024 - Court Square Theater
41-F Court Square, Harrisonburg, VA
4/26/2024 - Court Square Theater
41-F Court Square, Harrisonburg, VA
4/28/2024 - Tin Pan
8982 Quioccasin Road, Richmond, VA
7/19/2024 - Mason District Park Amphitheater
6621 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA
9/20/2024 - Walnut Valley Festival
Cowley County Fairgrounds, Winfield,KS
9/21/2024 - Walnut Valley Festival
Cowley County Fairgrounds, Winfield, KS
9/28/2024 - Earlville Opera House
18 East Main Street, Earlville, NY
TOM PAXTON
DISCOGRAPHY
I'm the Man That Built the Bridges [live] (Gaslight, 1962)
Ramblin' Boy (Elektra, 1964)
Ain't That News! (Elektra, 1965)
Outward Bound (Elektra, 1966)
Morning Again (Elektra, 1968)
The Things I Notice Now (Elektra, 1969)
Tom Paxton 6 (Elektra, 1970)
The Compleat Tom Paxton [live in June 1970 at the Bitter End nightclub, Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, New York City] (Elektra, 1971)
How Come the Sun (Reprise, 1971)
Peace Will Come (Reprise, 1972)
New Songs for Old Friends [live] (Reprise, 1973)
Children's Song Book (Bradleys, 1974) (reissued in the U.S. ten years later under the title The Marvelous Toy and Other Gallimaufry (Cherry Lane / Flying Fish, 1984)
Something in My Life (Private Stock, 1975)
Saturday Night (MAM, 1976)
New Songs from the Briarpatch [live] (Vanguard, 1977)
Heroes (Vanguard, 1978)
Up and Up (Mountain Railroad, 1979)
The Paxton Report (Mountain Railroad, 1980)
Bulletin (Hogeye, 1983)
Even a Gray Day (Flying Fish, 1983)
Tom Paxton in the Orchard (Cherry Lane Records, 1984)
One Million Lawyers and Other Disasters (Flying Fish, 1985)
A Paxton Primer (Pax, 1986)
Folksong Festival 1986 (Pax, 1986)
And Loving You (Flying Fish, 1986)
Balloon-alloon-alloon (Sony Kids' Music, 1987)
Politics Live [live] (Flying Fish, 1988)
The Very Best of Tom Paxton (Flying Fish, 1988)
In The Orchard [live] (Sundown Records, 1988)
Storyteller (Start Records Ltd, 1989)
It Ain't Easy (Flying Fish, 1991)
A Child's Christmas (Sony Kids' Music, 1992)
Peanut Butter Pie (Sony Kids' Music, 1992)
Suzy Is a Rocker (Sony Kids' Music, 1992)
Wearing the Time (Sugar Hill, 1994)
Live: For the Record [live] (Sugar Hill, 1996)
A Child's Christmas/Marvelous Toy and Other Gallimaufry (Delta, 1996)
A Car Full of Songs (Sony Kids' Music, 1997)
Goin' to the Zoo (Rounder, 1997)
I've Got a Yo-Yo (Rounder, 1997)
The Best of Tom Paxton (Hallmark, 1997)
Live in Concert [live] (Strange Fruit, 1998)
Fun Animal Songs (Delta, 1999)
Fun Food Songs (Delta, 1999)
A Car Full of Fun Songs (Delta, 1999)
I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound: The Best of Tom Paxton (Rhino, 1999)
Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard, 2000)
Stars in Their Eyes (Cub Creek Records, 2000), duet with Mark Elliott
Live From Mountain Stage [live] (Blue Plate, 2001)
Under American Skies (Appleseed and Koch International, 2001)
Ramblin' Boy/Ain't That News! (Warner Strategic Marketing, 2002)
Your Shoes, My Shoes (Red House, 2002)
Looking for the Moon (Appleseed, 2002)
American Troubadour (Music Club, 2003)
Best of Friends [live on February 16, 1985 at Holsteins folk club, Chicago, Illinois] (Appleseed Recordings, 2004) (originally taped for broadcast by WFMT's The Midnight Special radio show by its host, Rich Warren)
The Compleat Tom Paxton (Even Compleater) [live] (Rhino Handmade, 2004)
Outward Bound/Morning Again (Wea/Rhino, 2004)
Live in the UK [live] (Pax, 2005)
Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop [live] (Shout Factory, 2006)
Comedians and Angels (Appleseed, 2008)
Redemption Road (Pax Records, 2015)
Boat in the Water (Pax Records, 2017)
Live at Portland, Oregon, November 7, 2017 (2018) with The Don Juans
The Essential (Apple Music, 2019)
Live! (Bandcamp, 2019) with The Don Juans
Rabbit (Misra, 2022) with Buffalo Rose
Together (2023) with John McCutcheon
BOOKS
BY TOM PAXTON
Aesop's Fables (William Morrow & Co, 1988)
Belling the Cat and Other Aesop's Fables (William Morrow & Co, 1990)
Engelbert the Elephant (William Morrow & Co, 1990)
Androcles and the Lion: And Other Aesop's Fables (William Morrow & Co, 1991)
Birds of a Feather and Other Aesop's Fables (William Morrow & Co, 1993)
The Animals' Lullaby (Let Me Read, Level 3) (William Morrow & Co, 1993)
Where's the Baby? (HarperCollins, 1993)
Engelbert Moves the House (Let Me Read, Level 3) (Good Year Books, 1995)
The Story of Santa Claus (HarperCollins, 1995)
The Story of the Tooth Fairy (William Morrow & Company, 1996)
Going to the Zoo (William Morrow & Company, 1996)
Meet Tom Paxton – An Interview With Tom Paxton: Level 3 Reader (Good Year Books, 1996)
Engelbert Joins the Circus (HarperCollins, 1997)
The Jungle Baseball Game (Morrow Junior, 1999)
Jennifer's Rabbit (HarperCollins, 2001)
JOHN McCUTCHEON
DISCOGRAPHY
How Can I Keep from Singing? (June Appal Recordings, 1975)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (June Appal Recordings and Rounder, 1977)*
From Earth To Heaven (June Appal Recordings, 1978) (As part of group Wry Straw)
Barefoot Boy with Boots On (Rounder, 1980)
Fine Times at Our House (Rounder, 1982; reissued Greenhays, 2010)
Howjadoo (Rounder, 1983)
Winter Solstice (Rounder, 1984, with Trapezoid and Washington Bach Consort)
Signs of the Times (Rounder, 1986, with Si Kahn)
Step By Step: Hammer Dulcimer Duets, Trios and Quartets (Rounder, 1986)
Gonna Rise Again (Rounder, 1987)
Mail Myself to You (Rounder, 1988)
Water from Another Time: A Retrospective (Rounder, 1989)
What It's Like (Rounder, 1990)
Live at Wolf Trap (Rounder, 1991)
Family Garden (Rounder, 1993)
Between the Eclipse (Rounder, 1995)
Summersongs (series: John McCutcheon's Four Seasons) (Rounder, 1995)
Wintersongs (series: John McCutcheon's Four Seasons) (Rounder, 1995)
Nothing to Lose (Rounder, 1995)
Sprout Wings and Fly (Rounder, 1997)
Bigger Than Yourself (Rounder, 1997, co-written by Si Kahn)
Doing Our Job (Rounder, 1997, with Tom Chapin)
Autumnsongs (series: John McCutcheon's Four Seasons) (Rounder, 1998, family album)
Springsongs (series: John McCutcheon's Four Seasons) (Rounder, 1999, family album)
Storied Ground (Rounder, 1999)
Supper's on the Table (Rounder, 2001, retrospective)
The Greatest Story Never Told (Red House Records, 2002)
Hail to the Chief (self-published, 2003)
Hammer Dulcimer Repertoire (Homespun Tapes, 2003; CD and book)
Stand Up! Broadsides for Our Time (self-published, 2004; reissue 2010)
Welcome the Traveler Home: The Winfield Songs (self-published, 2004; reissue 2010)
Mightier Than the Sword (Appalsongs, 2005)
This Fire (Appalsongs, 2007)
The Hammer Dulcimer (Hal Leonard, 2007; 6 CDs and booklet)
Sermon on the Mound (Appalsongs, 2008)
Untold (Appalsongs, 2009)
Passage (Appalsongs, 2010)
This Land: Woody Guthrie's America (Appalsongs, 2011)
22 Days (Appalsongs, 2013)
Joe Hill's Last Will (Appalsongs, 2015)
Trolling for Dreams (Appalsongs, 2017)
Ghost Light (Appalsongs, 2018)
To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger (Appalsongs, 2019)
Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (Appalsongs, 2020)
Bucket List (Appalsongs, 2021)
Together with Tom Paxton (2023)
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BOOK REVIEW
-By Literary Titan (5) STARS
The Rock Star Chronicles by Ray Shasho, is a splendid book written by a music enthusiast who has poured their heart and soul into it. It’s a story of a boy who loved rock music, and his obsessive passion of it earned himself the name Rock Raymond. He went to school but instead was schooled in all matters of music while his peers were buried chin-deep in coursework. He then became a radio DJ and has now compiled a book on all interviews he held with Rock gods who raided the airwaves back in the 70s and 80s. It’s a compilation of interviews with outstanding vocalists, legendary guitarists and crazy drummers in the rock music scene. Each interview gives a reader an in-depth view into their personal lives and the philosophies that guide their lives which all serve to humanize these great icons. For readers who are old enough to call themselves baby boomers this book will bring old memories back to life. Millennials, on the other hand, may think of this book as a literal work of the Carpool Karaoke show.
The Rock Star Chronicles is a book I didn’t know I was waiting for. To come across a book that will talk me into trying something new. One brave enough to incite me to venture into new frontiers. This book made me a believer- I am now a bona fide Rock and Roll music fan.
Ray Shasho masterfully gets the interviewees talking. He smartly coaxes answers from them with crafty questions designed to get a story rolling out of them. The artists talk about diverse issues ranging from music, politics, and their social engagements. Having been on the music seen all his life, Ray Shasho knows the buttons to press, how to get them comfortable about talking about their lives.
The book’s cover is befitting of its subject matter with the leather look offering a royal background to the golden letter print. It speaks to how high a level rock music holds in the pecking order- arguably, modern music as we know it has originated from blues and rock music. The second noteworthy thing is the use of high-definition pictures to reference the musician being interviewed in every sub-chapter. This ensures that the book is for both original rock and roll lovers and aspiring new ones. Together is makes for a refreshing and consistently enjoyable read.
I recommend this book to rock music enthusiasts, aspiring musicians wondering what it takes and all readers curious to learn new things by going back in time.
https://literarytitan.com/2020/05/03/literary-titan-book-awards-may-2020/
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