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Paxton has been nominated four times for Grammy Awards, all since 2002. He was first nominated in 2002 for his children's album, Your Shoes, My Shoes. The following year, Looking for the Moon received a 2003 nomination for "Best Contemporary Folk Album". Live in the UK (2005), received a 2006 Grammy nomination in the "Best Traditional Folk Album" category. Most recently, his 2008 album Comedians and Angels received a 2009 nomination, also in the "Best Traditional Folk Album" category. Paxton was honored with a 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy, and the formal announcement was made during the 51st Annual Grammy Awards telecast, which aired on February 8, 2009. [2] [3] 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.” Tom Paxton embodies the spirit of folk music in the most beautiful sense. Not just in his song crafting, his work ethic, his politics and his dedication to people’s music, but also in his kind and generous heart. When I first started playing folk festivals, I was all of eighteen, shaved headed and politically outspoken. Many people in the folk community at that time seemed defensive and threatened by me, but I remember Tom was a notable exception. He was nothing but warm, welcoming and supportive to me from the git go. He’s the coolest.” (Ani DiFranco) L-R) John Sebastian, Josh White Jr, Peter Yarrow, Tom Paxton and Pete Seeger with Adam Amram right, perform onstage at the he 'Power of Song' Award Concert to Benefit Pete Seeger's Clearwater Program which honored David Amram at Symphony Space in New York on Nov. 9, 2012. Ebet Roberts/Redferns

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In 1948, the family moved to Bristow, Oklahoma, which Paxton considers to be his hometown. Soon after, his father died from a stroke. Paxton was about 15 when he received his first stringed instrument, a ukulele. [6] He was given a guitar by his aunt when he was sixteen, and he soon began to immerse himself in the music of Burl Ives and Harry Belafonte. [7] Paxton remains as engaged as ever. During his Clearwater set, from his 2015 album Redemption Road, he performed a song—again written in the first person—condemning neglect of the impoverished. “If the poor don’t matter,” he sang, “neither do I.”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 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] 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.

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Folk icon Tom Paxton leaving road, but not retiring". New Jersey Herald . Retrieved December 9, 2019. Tom Paxton – Best of Friends CD – Best of Friends CD music Product Description". cduniverse.com . Retrieved October 14, 2015. Said Judy Collins: “He writes stirring songs of social protest and gentle songs of love, each woven together with his personal gift for language.”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) [5]

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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.” Midge was… she was my guiding star,” Paxtonsaid. “She was my conscience. She never lost sight of what I was trying to do. And if I seemed to be straying from it, she’d mention that.She was almost ready to listen to a new song. She’d point out speed bumps, if there were any.a b c Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Conciseed.). Virgin Books. p.939. ISBN 1-85227-745-9. 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. We were married in six months,” said Paxton. “And in the end, we made it to just two months short of 51 years.” 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]

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I came to a point a couple of years ago when I actually convinced myself that I was going to get off the road,” said Paxton in a recent interview from his home in Alexandria, Va., taking a morning break from doing The New York Times crossword puzzle to speak with Billboard.“At the same time I was starting to work with these two songwriters from Nashville, Jon Vezner and Don Henry.” At this birthday milestone, it seems the right time to ask: does Paxton ever reflect on the impact he’s had on decades of songwriters? On stage at the Clearwater Festival, Paxton asked the crowd: “Can anyone honestly say that Pete and Toshi are not here today?” Pete Seeger passed away in 2014 at age 94, while Seeger’swife, Toshi, died in 2013at age 91.

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The breadth and depth of that album was so fantastic,” Paxton said at the Woody Guthrie Center. The variety of songs on the album—including love ballads, children’s songs, topical broadsides—anticipated the scope of Paxton’s own career. “By the time that album concluded, I had an epiphany,” he said. “I went from someone who loved this music to someone who had to do it.” Paxton — who turns 85 today— is one of the most important figures in American songwriting and the folk music tradition. a b Tom Paxton Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Announcement (brief video clip from the 51st Annual Grammy Awards telecast) on YouTube Paxton toured the UK in 2018 and 2019 (11 venues), accompanied by The Don Juans. His shows featured his 2011 song "What if, no matter" ("He couldn't lay his hands on a gun"). [26] [27] [28] Personal life and family [ edit ]