Tom Paxton

Jingle Bells Friday – making lists, checking them twice

November 17, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Welcome back to our seasonal feature Jingle Bells Friday where we celebrate all the joys of a festive season that abounds with snow and good will and gift giving and….arguments and drunkenness and heartbreak. This is, […]

Interview: Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink, and Marcy Marxer on new songbooks and ongoing activism

September 27, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

Keeping Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger’s inspiration alive. Tom Paxton has helped to define what is generally understood to be meant by the term folksinger via a career that started in Greenwich Village with […]

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer “All New”

August 31, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

These three veteran Grammy winners look set to win another one with this excellent collection of bluegrass and good old fashioned folk songs. Tom Paxton, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, surely needs no introduction here […]

Buffalo Rose “Runaway” – forging a link to the future

January 26, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Buffalo Rose, a six-piece band from Pittsburgh, have been busily building their reputation following the release of their debut album ‘The Soil and the Seed‘ in 2018. They’ve released two EPs since, and have been the […]

The Accidentals “Time Out (Session 1)”

May 10, 2021 Mark Nenadic 0

Am enriching collection of laid back, acoustic(ish) folksy ballads. Okay. Five tracks only here, so they need to be ‘bangers’ (in clumsy misuse of the term) to make it count. Well, The Accidentals have certainly teamed […]

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

August 6, 2026 0

For more than two decades, Freddy Trujillo has quietly built one of the most distinctive careers in American roots music. Whether anchoring the rhythm section as bassist for Richmond Fontaine and The Delines or as a […]

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

August 6, 2026 0

Railcard’s new single from their debut album Two Steps At A Time, is a softly sunny power pop take on a common problem – the unreasonable person who lives next door. Tell us about it. Although […]

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

August 6, 2026 0

Here’s the sound of the summer; Marianne is upbeat folk from singer-songwriter Karl Bray. Featuring guitar from Paul Phillips, former member of Pooh Sticks, Marianne opens with a light strum before the song settles into its swaying […]

Jingle Bells Friday – making lists, checking them twice

Interview: Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink, and Marcy Marxer on new songbooks and ongoing activism

Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer “All New”

Buffalo Rose “Runaway” – forging a link to the future

The Accidentals “Time Out (Session 1)”

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

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