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(BGO Records) 13 tracks, including tracks from the 'Tom Paxton EP' - slipcase packaging with 16... more

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Tom Paxton: How Come The Sun...plus (CD)

(BGO Records) 13 tracks, including tracks from the 'Tom Paxton EP' - slipcase packaging with 16 page booklet

Paxton's 1971 album for Reprise plus his 1966 EP for Elektra Records, 'How Come The Sun' made the US Top 200 album charts. Paxton had a long successful career and has now retired. Digitally remastered and with new repackaging. Extensive new liner notes.

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Interpret: Tom Paxton
Album titlle: How Come The Sun...plus (CD)
Genre Country
Label BGO RECORDS
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5017261213648
weight in Kg 0.12

Paxton, Tom - How Come The Sun...plus (CD) CD 1
01	I Had To Shoot That Rabbit	Tom Paxton
02	Icarus	Tom Paxton
03	Little Lost Child	Tom Paxton
04	General Custer	Tom Paxton
05	She's Far Away	Tom Paxton
06	Prayin' For Snow	Tom Paxton
07	Louise	Tom Paxton
08	A Sailor's Life	Tom Paxton
09	How Come The Sun	Tom Paxton
10	The Marvellous Toy	Tom Paxton
11	Beau John	Tom Paxton
12	Deep Fork River	Tom Paxton
13	My Dog's Better Than Your Dog	Tom Paxton

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"Tom Paxton"

Tom Paxton

Thomas Richard 'Tom' Paxton was among the group of New York-based singer/songwriters who helped start the early '60s folk revival. Born in Chicago on October 31, 1937, Paxton grew up in Arizona. He discovered folk music when he heard Burl Ives singing traditional songs such as Blue Tail Fly and Big Rock Candy Mountain. While at the University of Oklahoma he was introduced to the more topical folk music of Woody Guthrie and The Weavers.

Paxton joined the U.S. Army after graduation and was fortunate to be sent to Fort Dix, New Jersey for schooling. Being only about 60 miles from New York meant that he was able to spend many weekends in Greenwich Village, meeting other folk singers and performing at the Gaslight Café. Paxton was also writing songs at this time, some of his lighthearted tunes such as The Marvelous Toy and What Did You Learn In School Today quickly being picked by artists such as Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger and The Chad Mitchell Trio.

School… was written well before the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, so in retrospect its lyrics seem prescient for the decade that followed. According to Paxton, children were being taught that war is not so bad, that soldiers seldom die, that "our government must be strong" and that "it's always right and never wrong." When these teachings bumped into the reality of the Vietnam War, many young people lost faith in their elders, teachers and government. Paxton's own take on School…was that an effective topical song should "use a little irony, a little tongue-in-cheek."

By 1964 Paxton and his music became deeply involved in the pressing social issues of civil rights and the war. He took part in '64's Freedom Summer and sang at voter registration drives. Goodman, Schwerner And Cheney was his tribute to the three slain civil rights activists. With regard to the widening conflict in Southeast Asia, The Willing Conscript [Disc 1 as sung by Pete Seeger], Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues and Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation [Disc 1] are but three of his anti-war songs.

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