Like countless young adults who fell in love with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton headed to Greenwich Village in the early ’60s, just in time to join Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Joan Baez and other troubadours who took over coffeehouse stages — and took on the world. Paxton has been raising his rich voice in song ever since, carrying on the folk tradition with passion, wit and grace.
Paxton and producer Jim Rooney recorded Redemption Road (on Paxton’s Pax Records) at the Butcher Shop in Nashville, which made it easy to recruit a stellar gang of supporting players. The list includes Al Perkins on dobro, Tim Crouch on fiddle and mandolin, frequent collaborator Geoff Bartley on National steel guitar, Kirk “Jellyroll” Johnson on harmonica and executive producer Cathy Fink on banjo and harmonies. Janis Ian contributes harmony to the title tune; John Prine takes a verse on “Skeeters’ll Gitcha.”
ALL SONGS BY TOM PAXTON except THE PARTING GLASS, which is traditional.
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1. VIRGINIA MORNING

Tom Paxton is a songwriter’s songwriter, a folksinger’s folksinger and one of the few original Greenwich Village troubadours to still be active on the scene. Since the release of the critically acclaimed recording, “Redemption Road” in 2015, Paxton has kept his writing skills sharp, teaming up with three of Nashville’s top writers to kick off a new song cycle on “BOAT IN THE WATER.” The title song was co-written with Pat Alger, famous for his Garth Brooks hits. Jon Vezner, who wrote Kathy Mattea’s hit, “Where’ve You Been”, co-wrote several songs on the album including the ukulele-centric “Dream On, Sweet Dreamer” and the lonesome “Christmas in the Shelter.” 

Paxton,Vezner and Don Henry wrote the mysterious “Eleanor’s Song”. Once again, universal themes are central to the album. “It’s Too Soon” talks of holding on to someone who is gone while “The First Thing I Think of this Morning” is as beautiful a love song as you will ever hear.

Co-writing expands Tom’s world, but his solo compositions still have the hook, singability and stickiness of the past. His knack for writing a novel in a short song is clear in “The Last Hobo” and “A Daughter In Denver.”  A few gems of the past snuck into the album including “Home To Me”, sung by Cathy Fink, with Tom on harmony vocals.

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