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
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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.
THE
LATEST ALBUM
BY
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.
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MORE INFORMATION
ABOUT
and
John McCutcheon
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Paxton Official website
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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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THE ROCK STAR CHRONICLES
SERIES ONE
CHRONICLES,TRUTHS
CONFESSIONS AND WISDOM
FROM THE MUSIC LEGENDS
THAT SET US FREE!
BY MUSIC JOURNALIST ...TALK SHOW HOST...
AUTHOR ... TV SITCOM SCRIPT WRITER
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Featuring over 45 intimate conversations with some of the greatest rock legends the world will ever know.
CHRIS SQUIRE... DR. JOHN... GREG LAKE... HENRY MCCULLOUGH... JACK BRUCE … JOE LALA… JOHNNY WINTER... KEITH EMERSON... PAUL KANTNER... RAY THOMAS... RONNIE MONTROSE... TONY JOE WHITE... DAVID CLAYTON-THOMAS… MIKE LOVE... TOMMY ROE... BARRY HAY... CHRIS THOMPSON... JESSE COLIN YOUNG... JOHN KAY... JULIAN LENNON... MARK LINDSAY... MICKY DOLENZ… PETER RIVERA ...TOMMY JAMES… TODD RUNDGREN... DAVE MASON... EDGAR WINTER... FRANK MARINO... GREGG ROLIE... IAN ANDERSON... JIM “DANDY” MANGRUM... JON ANDERSON... LOU GRAMM... MICK BOX... RANDY BACHMAN… ROBIN TROWER... ROGER FISHER... STEVE HACKETT... ANNIE HASLAM… ‘MELANIE’ SAFKA... PETULA CLARK... SUZI QUATRO... COLIN BLUNSTONE… DAVE DAVIES... JIM McCARTY... PETE BEST
THE ROCK STAR CHRONICLES
BOOK TRAILER
BOOK REVIEW
-By Literary Titan (5) STARS
The Rock Star Chronicles by Ray Shasho, is a splendid book written by a music enthusiast who has poured their heart and soul into it. It’s a story of a boy who loved rock music, and his obsessive passion of it earned himself the name Rock Raymond. He went to school but instead was schooled in all matters of music while his peers were buried chin-deep in coursework. He then became a radio DJ and has now compiled a book on all interviews he held with Rock gods who raided the airwaves back in the 70s and 80s. It’s a compilation of interviews with outstanding vocalists, legendary guitarists and crazy drummers in the rock music scene. Each interview gives a reader an in-depth view into their personal lives and the philosophies that guide their lives which all serve to humanize these great icons. For readers who are old enough to call themselves baby boomers this book will bring old memories back to life. Millennials, on the other hand, may think of this book as a literal work of the Carpool Karaoke show.
The Rock Star Chronicles is a book I didn’t know I was waiting for. To come across a book that will talk me into trying something new. One brave enough to incite me to venture into new frontiers. This book made me a believer- I am now a bona fide Rock and Roll music fan.
Ray Shasho masterfully gets the interviewees talking. He smartly coaxes answers from them with crafty questions designed to get a story rolling out of them. The artists talk about diverse issues ranging from music, politics, and their social engagements. Having been on the music seen all his life, Ray Shasho knows the buttons to press, how to get them comfortable about talking about their lives.
The book’s cover is befitting of its subject matter with the leather look offering a royal background to the golden letter print. It speaks to how high a level rock music holds in the pecking order- arguably, modern music as we know it has originated from blues and rock music. The second noteworthy thing is the use of high-definition pictures to reference the musician being interviewed in every sub-chapter. This ensures that the book is for both original rock and roll lovers and aspiring new ones. Together is makes for a refreshing and consistently enjoyable read.
I recommend this book to rock music enthusiasts, aspiring musicians wondering what it takes and all readers curious to learn new things by going back in time.
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