Tom Paxton

You had an artist who went by the name Odetta, an African-American blues musician who had actually put her first records out in the 1950s, but a lot of her Songs were very topical, so they kind of fit into the broader folk family.

Dave Van Ronk and Tom Paxton were other big names in the village at this point.

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He would play, again, while there, some songs that we're going to talk about a bit later that became some of his biggest and best known.

He also earned a coveted invite to the Newport Folk Festival that year.

where he performed alongside the likes of Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul, and Mary.

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They had a big hit called Come Go With Me.

Tom Paxton was born in 1937, American folk music singer-songwriter who became part of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk revival scene.

As a matter of fact, he was the one who wrote The Last Thing on My Mind.

Ethel Waters was born in 1896.

It's called The Last Thing on My Mind.

Tom Paxton wrote it.

The Seekers did it.

A lot of people.

So I would find that, honestly, at the same time as the audience, what we're all doing.

But through osmosis, and like you said, anything by Tom Paxton is possibly in G.

Yes.

And you know that probably you can slide the capo a little bit.

And whether they were bothered that we would do something that they intended to do, but there's enough folks, enough songs anyway, aren't there? yeah but um and then they got involved in they do these sort of long breaks in blackpool or in buxta or whatever

yeah

so that kind of thing and and then as i say you know we met tommy maycomb on the dock road um we had routon hall tom paxton with midge they pitched up middle of the day And we were doing the sound, et cetera.

And we sat just as people, not as the kind of the star with the fan in awe, but just as how has the day gone, how has the drive, you

Uh, but then eventually Clive Davis comes in, and, uh, he ends up getting signed on John Hammond's tip.

Before that, though, Leonard made his official live debut as a singer in New York, February 22nd, 1967, a benefit concert for WBAI, held in the Village Theater on Sixth Street at Second Avenue, with an impressive lineup that included, here's the next name, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, and Judy Collins.

Just, like, every, like, it's just the Bob Dylan story.

It's unbelievable to me.

That sort of or American.

No, I liked, I liked, uh, like Woody Guthrie and, uh, Tom Paxton and-

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... people like that.