Folk Legends Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon Talk Songwriter and New Album 'Together'

JOHN McCUTCHEON AND TOM PAXTON JOIN FORCES TO CREATE THEIR FIRST JOINT RECORDING TITLED ‘TOGETHER’

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.

PLEASE WELCOME TWO FOLK LEGENDS JOHN MCCUTCHEON AND TOM PAXTON TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS …

PURCHASE

THE LATEST ALBUM

BY

Tom Paxton

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 released 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.

Available at amazon.com

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and

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TOM PAXTON

DISCOGRAPHY

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:

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)

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