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Music CD - Tom Paxton: I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound: The Best Of Tom Paxton
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Music CD: I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound: The Best Of Tom Paxton
Artist: Tom Paxton
List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $7.41
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Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
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1. I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
2. What Did You Learn in School Today?
3. The Last Thing on My Mind
4. Daily News
5. My Lady's a Wild Flying Dove
6. Goin' to the Zoo
7. Ramblin' Boy
8. The Willing Conscript
9. Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation
10. Bottle of Wine
11. Every Time
12. Leaving London
13. My Son John
14. One Time and One Time Only
15. Outward Bound
16. Victoria Dines Alone
17. All Night Long
18. Forest Lawn
19. Whose Garden Was This
20. Cindy's Cryin'
21. Clarissa Jones
22. Now That I've Taken My Life
23. Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues
24. Jimmy Newman
25. The Marvelous Toy
26. Jennifer Rabbit/I Give You the Morning
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227351526
Label: Elektra / Wea
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Elektra / Wea
Release Date: 1999-01-19
Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: An all-time classic
Comment: Great folk music. Timeless. Protest songs that we could use now, but wouldn't be aired on most stations today!
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Summary: A Great Collection of Classics -- Some Hard to Find
Comment: For those wanting to celebrate Tom Paxton's 70th birthday (Oct. 31, 2007), this collection of Paxton's music on Electra Records is your best bet as it includes many songs from his earlier years he no longer performs and/or does not include in his later collections. Among these great gems are "Victoria Dines Alone" -- a cello-backed musical painting of an old, lonely woman dining alone in a cafe; it will make you wonder whether Paxton was inspired by Eleanor Rigby, or the Beatles found inspiration from Paxton. Many people will want to grab this CD for "Talking Potluck Blues," a Vietnam-era ditty that imagines a pot party shared by VC and American squads. Now, personally opposed to any glorification of drugs, Paxton refuses to play it in concert; so this may be your only chance to hear it. Of course all of the early classics, "Ramblin Boy" and "Last Thing on My Mind" are here, sung by a young Paxton with a slightly higher range. Be sure to first listen to the original "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation," found here, and then run to http://www.tompaxton.com/download.html to get a free download of the updated, "George Bush Told the Nation." Different war, same tragic mistake, and this time we're "fighting to save Iraq from Iraqis." Happy birthday Tom!
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Summary: Memories
Comment: Hey, buy this CD. If you lived through the sixties or would have liked to this folk hero is a must listen. There was an stupid war going on then and there is a stupid one going on now. War is war and his songs touch a cord. If you have never heard "Last thing on my Mind" it will blow you away.."Whose Garden Was This?" Killer. Just check it out...
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Summary: ONE GREAT FOLK ARTIST
Comment: I was in high school during the VietNam unrest and got into protest music at that time-but the only record by Tom Paxton that I enjoyed was Mysterious Toy. Ater all these years I forgot about him and while shopping in a card shop I heard a childs song-I Have Yo Yo and recognized the artist. From that shopping trip it brought me to Amazon and this great CD by Tom with his vast array of various songs. A truly great artist.Buy it-listen to it- and go back in time whether good or bad.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Album
Comment: Listening to Tom Paxton is like a time machine back into the turmoil and frustration of the sixties. This album shows why Paxton is one of the principle movers of the resistance to the war in Vietnam. Some of the songs make you want to cry they're so beautiful, but mostly the humor and good nature is what comes through. "The Vietnam Ragg" probably sums up most guy's attitudes towards the draft most perfectly. We lost a lot in this country when folk music fell out of favor. Men like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seger, Jack Elliott, Hoyt Axton and Tom Paxton came from the soil and blood that built this nation before the days of consumerism and conspicuous consumption and I hope they're never forgotten.
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Editorial Reviews:
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There are few music fans who are not familiar with a Tom Paxton song--whether they know it or not. Paxton emerged from the folk movement of the 1960s and went on to pen a remarkable body of work that has been covered by literally hundreds of singers. Indeed, the songs on this collection, culled from the seven albums he cut from his start on through 1971, include what are now unarguably American standards in the rarefied tradition of Stephen Foster and Woody Guthrie. His lyrical charm and simplicity of melody informs children's songs ("Going to the Zoo," "Marvelous Toy") and hilarious social satires ("What Did You Learn in School Today," "Forest Lawn"). His most memorable songs, though, are the romantic ballads such as the title track, "Ramblin' Boy," and his signature apologia "The Last Thing on My Mind." This album is a perfect Paxton primer, the only quibble being over the songs left off. The breadth of Paxton's early work surely merits a double CD. --John Sutton-Smith
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