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Tom Paxton embodies the spirit of folk music in the most beautiful sense,” said Ani DiFranco. “He’s the coolest.” When asked to perform at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. for the first Earth Day in 1970, Paxton wrote one of the first great environmental protest songs, “Whose Garden Was This.”It still resonates in the age of climate change. “How I wish I didn’t feel I had to keep singing this song,” Paxton said at the Clearwater Festival. “But I do.” In 2008, Paxton rewrote his song "I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler", about the federal loan guarantee to Chrysler in 1979, as "I Am Changing My Name to Fannie Mae", about the 700billion dollar "bailout of the U.S. financial system". He continues to perform yearly tours of the United States and UK. [ citation needed] From the start, Paxton’s topical songs were often laced with a mix of irony, insight and anger.The songs often transcend the time in which they were written.In “What Did You Learn In School Today,” from 1962, the “little boy of mine” tells his parent:

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Shortly after his honorable discharge from the Army, Paxton auditioned for the Chad Mitchell Trio via publisher Milt Okun in 1960. He initially received the part, but his voice did not blend well enough with those of the group members. However, after singing his song "The Marvelous Toy" for Okun, he became the first writer signed to Milt's music publishing company, Cherry Lane Music Publishing. [12] Tom received a 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy during the 51st Annual GRAMMY® Awards. He was nominated for a GRAMMY for Comedians and Angels in 2007, and Live in the U.K. in 2006. He was also nominated for GRAMMYS in 2003 for his Appleseed Records CD, Looking For The Moon, and in 2002 for his children’s CD, Your Shoes, My Shoes. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from ASCAP, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the BBC in London. In 1955, Paxton enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, where he studied in the drama school. [8] It was here that he first found other enthusiasts of folk music and discovered the music of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. He would later note, "Woody was fearless; he'd take on any issue that got him stirred up... and he became one of my greatest influences." [9] In college, he was in a group known as the Travellers, which sang in an off-campus coffeehouse. [10] Career [ edit ] Early career [ edit ]Sturdy like a boot with all the comfort of a sneaker, this slip-on carries you from one season to the next with its water-resistant design and subtle embellishments. The TOMS Paxton is crafted with a genuine leather upper with faux fur lining. It features a removable, OrthoLite Eco LT insoles made with 26% eco content, along with a customer rubber outsole for enhanced traction underfoot.

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In February 2002, Paxton was honored with the ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award in Folk Music. A few days later, he received three Wammies (Washington, DC, Area Music Awards); as Best Male Vocalist in the "traditional folk" and " children's music" categories, and for Best Traditional Folk Recording of the Year for "Under American Skies" (2001). [ citation needed] For decades, Paxton has performed at this festival to support the environmental work of the Hudson River sloop Clearwater. The Clearwater was conceived in 1966 by Paxton’s longtime friend and mentor, the folk music icon and social activist Pete Seeger, who once called Paxton’s songs “part of America.” We were writing songs together,” recalled Paxton, “and they said, ‘we’ve started doing some performances, calling ourselves the Don Juans, and we’d love to open shows for you and then accompanying you.’ I said that sounds like fun. And, in fact, that’s what it’s been. I don’t love the travel, but I love the performing and the co-writing and the friendship.”Tom Paxton – Best of Friends CD – Best of Friends CD music Product Description". cduniverse.com . Retrieved October 14, 2015. Whitefield, Mark (February 26, 2018). "Tom Paxton: "What if, no matter how angry he was, he couldn't lay hands on a gun?" ". Americana UK . Retrieved April 15, 2019. He has described his political views in the following way: "My own politics more or less resembled Will Rogers's politics. He had said that he belonged to no organized political party— he was a Democrat... being young and impassioned almost automatically put me over on the radical side of most issues. Being older, I find myself still more or less there, somewhat to my surprise." [31] Awards, honors, and nominations [ edit ] Tom Paxton with Ralph McTell (left) in the Palace of Westminster in 2007 RALPH MCTELL, Songs he played or wrote 250+ songs, lyrics and chords with PDF TOM PAXTON, Songs he played or wrote 300+ songs, lyrics and chords with PDF THE BYRDS, a complete(ish) song book of 2000+ songs, lyrics and chords with PDF Peter, Paul and Mary, a complete(ish) song book of 400+ items lyrics, chords and some tab with PDF The Kingston Trio, 350+ songs they played or wrote, lyrics, chords and PDF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN songbook, 1200+ songs he played or wrote lyrics, chords and PDF GORDON LIGHTFOOT songbook, 400+ songs he played or wrote lyrics, chords and PDF PHIL OCHS songbook, 180+ songs he played or wrote lyrics, chords and PDF JOAN BAEZ songbook, 460+ songs she played or wrote lyrics, chords and PDF WOODY GUTHRIE songbook, 225 songs he played or wrote lyrics, chords and PDF PETE SEEGER songbook, 220 songs he played or wrote lyrics, chords and PDF BOB DYLAN, A complete(ish) songbook(600+), lyrics, chords and PDF DONOVAN, A complete(ish) songbook 300+ songs, lyrics, chords and PDF, mostly his, own songs LEONARD COHEN, Songbook 330+ songs, lyrics, chords and PDF, mostly his, own songs

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In a career that spans more 60 albums, Paxton has received lifetime achievement recognition from ASCAP, the BBC and the Grammy Awards, as well as several Grammy Award nominations. But his greatest honor has been the praise of his peers. Tom Paxton’s place in folk music is secured not just by hit records and awards, but by the admiration of three generations of fellow musicians. An internationally recognized and loved cultural figure, he has always chosen goodwill over commercial success. His generosity has taken the shape of a benefit concert performance for a little girl fighting leukemia, or a personal note of encouragement to an up-and-coming songwriter. This is the man who wrote and lives the words, “Peace will come, and let it begin with me.” Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than sixty years. [1] In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. [2] [3] He is a music educator as well as an advocate for folk singers to combine traditional songs with new compositions. But Seeger, having just learned the song, got the chorus wrong, singing “fare thee well, my ramblin’ boy,” not “here’s to you, my ramblin’ boy,” as Paxton wrote it. Afterward, from his travels, Seeger mailed Paxton a postcard decorated with one of his well-known banjo doodles. He wrote simply: “Dear Tom, Oops!Pete.” But did Paxton and his peers in the Village in the ’60s also realize they were living through a remarkable period in history?

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Paxton, with a grey beard matching his hair, gazed across the Hudson to the wooded hills of the Palisadesas he sang his opening song, with lyrics inspired by an Old Testament prophet and Seeger’s activism. Guy Clark adds: “Thirty years ago Tom Paxton taught a generation of traditional folksingers that it was noble to write your own songs, and, like a good guitar, he just gets better with age.” Paxton has been an integral part of the songwriting and folk music community since the early 60’s Greenwich Village scene, and continues to be a primary influence on today’s “New Folk” performers. The Chicago native came to New York via Oklahoma, which he considers to be his home state. His family moved there in 1948, when Tom was 10 years old, and he graduated from Bristow High School and The University of Oklahoma, where he majored in drama while his interest in folk music grew and eventually predominated. 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)) [4] In the 1990s, Paxton began delving deeply into children's music, recording nine children's albums during the decade. In July 1994, Paxton was invited to perform at a folk festival in Israel, "Jacob's Ladder", and he played there and a series of concerts around Israel accompanied by folk guitarist and harmonica player Shay Tochner. Paxton recorded a live album in 1996 with his good friend Jim Rooney, and it contained some new comical songs about current events. Eric Weissberg, John Gorka, Robin and Linda Williams, among others, also performed; and the album was titled Live: For the Record. In the mid-1990s, Paxton also began to give more workshops in songwriting. [ citation needed] Paxton is now in "semi-retirement", though he still performs occasional shows and did a ten-venue UK tour in 2017.

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We were married in six months,” said Paxton. “And in the end, we made it to just two months short of 51 years.” Paxton soon began performing at The Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village, where he became a mainstay. [8] In 1962, he recorded a privately produced live album at the Gaslight entitled, I'm the Man That Built the Bridges. [8] During his stay in Greenwich Village, Paxton published some of his songs in the folk magazines Broadside and Sing Out!, and performed alongside such folksingers as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Eric Andersen, Dave Van Ronk, and Mississippi John Hurt. Paxton met his future wife, Margaret Ann Cummings (known as "Midge"), at the Gaslight one night in January 1963 after being introduced to her by David Blue. [13]

Of the songwriters on the Greenwich Village scene of the 1960s, Dave Van Ronk said, "Dylan is usually cited as the founder of the new song movement, and he certainly became its most visible standard-bearer, but the person who started the whole thing was Tom Paxton... he tested his songs in the crucible of live performance, he found that his own stuff was getting more attention than when he was singing traditional songs or stuff by other people ... he set himself a training regimen of deliberately writing one song every day. Dylan had not yet showed up when this was happening, and by the time Bobby came on the set, with at most two or three songs he had written, Tom was already singing at least 50 percent his own material. That said, it was Bobby's success that really got the ball rolling. Prior to that, the folk community was very much tied to traditional songs, so much so that songwriters would sometimes palm their own stuff off as traditional." [15] Across the decades, generations of musicians have drawn inspiration from Paxton’s songs of love, laughter and political outrage: “Ramblin’ Boy,”“Bottle of Wine,”“What Did You Learn In School Today,”“Whose Garden Was This,”“The Marvelous Toy” and countless more.