ROCK’N’ROLL CONFIDENTIAL
TOM PAXTON
The Greenwich Village elder talks miracles, Phil Ochs and why the music never stops.
The cap fits:
Tom Paxton, still rambling after all these years.
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FOLLOWING THE path of Woody Guthrie, Tom Paxton left Oklahoma and arrived in New York in 1960. FOLLOWINGTHE path of Woody Guthrie, Tom Paxton left Oklahoma and arrived in New York in 1960.
He found himself at the epicentre of the Greenwich Village folk boom alongside Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Judy Collins et al. Paxton and trademark cap were a staple part of the protest song movement, penning widely covered songs like The Last Thing On My Mind and Ramblin’ Boy. Now 84, he’s touring with Jon Vezner and Don Henry in The Don Juans; he’s also releasing All New, a live LP with Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer.