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by: Tom Paxton

Release Date April 25, 2008
I have been waiting for this album to be available on CD since I purchased my first CD Player in 1986. This is Tom Paxton's finest hour - every song is a gem. It almost completes my vinyl to CD transition. All we need now is the excellent 'New Songs For Old Friends' set & my life will be complete. Wonderful stuff indeed.

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I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound: the Elektra Years/the Best of Tom Paxton

by: Tom Paxton

Release Date February 15, 1999
Tom Paxton's recording career has been going on for almost half a century now. He still writes, performs and records to the delight of a dedicated following.

However, most of Paxton's fans would argue that his Elektra output - seven albums released between 1964 and 1971 - makes up the core of his most important and influential material.

All of Paxton's Elektra albums haven't yet been re-released on CD [the first four have, as well as an expanded version of his last, live 2-LP set.]

For those who do not want to buy all of these Elektra CD's [or to find good copies of the other Elektra LP's], this generous 27-track collection (close to 78 minutes of music) is a must. The compositions are well-chosen ranging ... Read More:

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Ramblin' Boy/Ain't That News

by: Tom Paxton

Release Date October 15, 2001
Another collection of Paxton's music described him as a 'troubador'. This wonderful re-release of two his earliest albums makes that point more forcefully than anything else I can think of.

Here are some of Tom's finest songs - from the gentle humour of 'Goin' to the zoo' and 'What did you learn in school today', to the honest romanticism of 'My lady's a wild flying dove'. But the true strength of this early music lies in Tom's songs about social justice (or, more accurately, social-injustice) and life in America in the 60's.

Take, for example, the brutal power of his lyrics in 'Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney', a song which recounts the ghastly murder ... Read More:

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Comedians and Angels

by: Tom Paxton

Release Date January 21, 2008
Tom Paxton was 70 last year. His career in music has now spanned over 45 years. His latest album "Comedians & Angels", the first since 2001's excellent Grammy nominated "Looking for the Moon" should therefore, and not only in my opinion, be the cause of much celebration! It's an excellent album: Tom's voice is as good as ever and he has lost none of his considerable song-writing skills.

Tom has mellowed a little in his later career - he seems to be leaving his famous, witty protest songs for the live stage, allowing the albums to be a celebration of life and love. That's how Tom wants it: in the sleeve notes to this album he says "this album is made of songs of love", even to the point of claiming the album's opener, the excellent "How ... Read More:

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The Things I Notice Now

by: Tom Paxton

Release Date April 25, 2008
This album is a quantuum leap in musical direction for Tom Paxton - it is as if his need to express himself pushes him beyond his original folk instincts, and something like a dylanesque craziness takes over.
There is no doubt that this is Paxton's piece de resistance. Every track has some magic or charm about it, especially the epic masterpiece 'The Iron Man' which is as poignant and mesmerising an indictment of war as you are ever likely to hear.
From the uncompromising onslaught of Bishop Cody's Last Request to the aching strangeness of All Night Long, the album is a rare jewel among musical experiments. It is where terms like 'folk' and 'rock' lose all meaning and an artist moves beyond all percieved boundaries into music that is much greater ... Read More:

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The Very Best of Tom Paxton

by: Tom Paxton

Release Date August 18, 2008
I had an old vinyl record of some of the tracks
like "My lady's a high flying dove" which were sung
with real love.

Imagine how much passion he manages to convey now he
is no longer with the lady. I was very disappointed with
this disk and consigned it to the dustbin.

Some things should be frozen in time
- buy the "Elektra Years" for a true reissue.

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BBC Live in Concert

by: Tom Paxton

Release Date November 30, 1998
I agree that this is Tom Paxton's best "live" CD, mostly because of the wide range of topics and musical styles covered by the songs. It has songs that were, as far as I know, originally recorded in England (in the "Peace Will Come" album of 1972: Out behind the gypsy's, I lost my heart on a 747, Retrospective, Dance in the shadows, The hostage, and Jesus Christ SRO), which I had never heard live and, though less popular than other Tom Paxton's classics, deserve attentive hears. (Incidentally, Judy Collins has an interesting version of The Hostage in her "True Stories and Other Dreams".)
Of course it is a pity that his truly first rate "live" albums have not been reissued in CD format yet: the first is "The Compleat ... Read More:

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Morning Again

by: Tom Paxton

Release Date April 25, 2008
I agree that this is Tom Paxton's best "live" CD, mostly because of the wide range of topics and musical styles covered by the songs. It has songs that were, as far as I know, originally recorded in England (in the "Peace Will Come" album of 1972: Out behind the gypsy's, I lost my heart on a 747, Retrospective, Dance in the shadows, The hostage, and Jesus Christ SRO), which I had never heard live and, though less popular than other Tom Paxton's classics, deserve attentive hears. (Incidentally, Judy Collins has an interesting version of The Hostage in her "True Stories and Other Dreams".)
Of course it is a pity that his truly first rate "live" albums have not been reissued in CD format yet: the first is "The Compleat ... Read More:

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Outward Bound/Morning Again

by: Tom Paxton

Release Date August 16, 2004
I agree that this is Tom Paxton's best "live" CD, mostly because of the wide range of topics and musical styles covered by the songs. It has songs that were, as far as I know, originally recorded in England (in the "Peace Will Come" album of 1972: Out behind the gypsy's, I lost my heart on a 747, Retrospective, Dance in the shadows, The hostage, and Jesus Christ SRO), which I had never heard live and, though less popular than other Tom Paxton's classics, deserve attentive hears. (Incidentally, Judy Collins has an interesting version of The Hostage in her "True Stories and Other Dreams".)
Of course it is a pity that his truly first rate "live" albums have not been reissued in CD format yet: the first is "The Compleat ... Read More:

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A Child's Christmas/Marvelous Toy and Other Gallimaufry

by: Tom Paxton

Release Date August 01, 1996
I agree that this is Tom Paxton's best "live" CD, mostly because of the wide range of topics and musical styles covered by the songs. It has songs that were, as far as I know, originally recorded in England (in the "Peace Will Come" album of 1972: Out behind the gypsy's, I lost my heart on a 747, Retrospective, Dance in the shadows, The hostage, and Jesus Christ SRO), which I had never heard live and, though less popular than other Tom Paxton's classics, deserve attentive hears. (Incidentally, Judy Collins has an interesting version of The Hostage in her "True Stories and Other Dreams".)
Of course it is a pity that his truly first rate "live" albums have not been reissued in CD format yet: the first is "The Compleat ... Read More: