Interviewing The Legends: LEGENDARY FOLK MUSIC ARTISTS/SONGWRITERS TOM PAXTON AND JOHN McCUTCHEON JOIN FORCES TO CREATE THEIR FIRST JOINT RECORDING ENTITLED ‘TOGETHER’ DUE OUT ON OCT 13TH ZOOM SPECIAL EVENT ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS!

LEGENDARY FOLK MUSIC ARTISTS

AND SONGWRITERS

T O M P A X T O N

AND

J O H N M c C U T C H E O N

JOIN FORCES TO CREATE

THEIR FIRST JOINT RECORDING

ENTITLED

‘T O G E T H E R’

DUE OUT ON OCT 13TH

ZOOM SPECIAL EVENT

ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

with RAY SHASHO

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.

PURCHASE

THE LATEST ALBUM

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, slated for a October 13th 2023 release 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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

Tom Paxton

and

John McCutcheon

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https://www.facebook.com/TomPaxtonMusic

Tom Paxton Facebook

https://twitter.com/TomPaxtonMusic

Tom Paxton Twitter

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www.folkmusic.com

John McCutcheon Official website

www.facebook.com/people/John-McCutcheon/100063915871608

John McCutcheon Facebook

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Tour Dates

11/19/2023 - ONLIINE SHOW! The Gratitude Attitude

a Celebration of Thanksgiving

Smoke Rise, GA

12/2/2023 - Harwich Cultural Center

204 Sisson Rd., Harwich, MA

12/3/2023 - Old Sloop Coffeehouse

12 School Street, Rockport, MA

12/10/2023 - Victory Christian Center

Holiday Concert with Atlanta Pops Orchestra

208 Victory Circle, Ellijay, GA

12/17/2023 - ONLINE SHOW! A John McCutcheon Holiday Concert

with special guests!

Smoke Rise, GA

1/5/2024 - Sofia Center for the Arts

2700 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, CA

1/6/2024 - Center for the Arts

314 W Main St, Grass Valley, CA

1/8/2024 - Sebastiani Theater

476 First Street East, Sonoma, CA

1/9/2024 - Modesto Church of the Brethren

my annual benefit concert for Modesto Peace/Life Center

2301 Woodland Ave., Modesto, CA

1/11/2024 - UU Church of Fresno

my annual visit to Fresno!

2672 East Alluvial Ave, Fresno, CA

1/12/2024 - World Records

2815 F Street, Bakersfield, CA

1/13/2024 - Devil's Mountain Coffeehouse

Mt. Diablo UU Church, 55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek, CA

1/14/2024 - Freight & Salvage

2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA

1/15/2024 - St. James Episcopal Church

37051 Cabrillo Terrace, Fremont, CA

2/2/2024 - Eddie's Attic

my annual hometown show!

515-B North McDonough Street, Decatur, GA

2/3/2024 - Craddock Center

my annual show to benefit my local literacy/storytelling center

186 Fred Craddock Drive, Cherry Log, GA

2/4/2024 - Rialton Room at the Indigo

a return to the great city of Athens!

500 College AV, Athens, GA

TBA

2/16/2024 - Ayurprana Listening Room

a new venue in Asheville!

312 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC

2/17/2024 - Tree of Life Coffeehouse

Tree of Life Congregation, 6719 N Trenholm Road, Columbia, SC

2/24/2024 - Plymouth Congregational Church

202 North Clifton, Wichita, KS

2/29/2024 - The West

319 North Central Avenue, Duluth, MN

3/1/2024 - 1st Presbyterian Church

a return to the nearest town to my Alma Mater, St. John's U!

340 5th AV So., St. Cloud, MN

3/3/2024 - Cedar Cultural Center

416 Cedar Ave. South, Minneapolis, MN

4/20/2024 - Dominican University Performing Arts Center

with Carrie Newcomer

7900 Division Street, River Forest, IL

4/24/2024 - Court Square Theater

41-F Court Square, Harrisonburg, VA

4/26/2024 - Court Square Theater

41-F Court Square, Harrisonburg, VA

4/28/2024 - Tin Pan

8982 Quioccasin Road, Richmond, VA

7/19/2024 - Mason District Park Amphitheater

6621 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA

9/20/2024 - Walnut Valley Festival

Cowley County Fairgrounds, Winfield,KS

9/21/2024 - Walnut Valley Festival

Cowley County Fairgrounds, Winfield, KS

9/28/2024 - Earlville Opera House

18 East Main Street, Earlville, NY

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)

Together with Tom Paxton (2023)

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