Donnerstag, 8. September 2011

tom

tom paxton songs::Her songs effortlessly slide between folk, jazz and pop and are delivered with a sassy wit and classic midwestern charm.
Susan werner, a clever songwriter and an engaging performer, brings literacy and wit back to popular song.
Vulnerability has rarely been so witty or concise in modern song.
Always an impressive songwriter, werner continues to compose sharp, funny, compassionate lyrics, a gift rare enough to set her apart.
The classically trained and jazz inspired singer is redefining the genre and winning admirers around the country.
This woman is great.
Without a doubt one of the most beloved and universally respected veterans of the greenwich village folk scene whose fan base still stretches across the english speaking world, tom paxton is quite literally a living legend.
He is one of the great songwriters of the last century, and a man we have come to regard as our friend.
He writes stirring songs of social protest and gentle songs of love, each woven together with his personal gift for language.
His melodies haunt, his lyrics reverberate.
Tom paxton embodies the spirit of folk music in the most beautiful sense.
When i first started playing folk festivals i was all of eighteen, shaved head and politically outspoken.
Many in the folk community at the time seemed defensive and threatened by me, but i remember tom was a notable exception.
He was nothing but warm, welcoming and supportive to me from the git go.
Every folk singer i know has either sung a tom paxton song, is singing a tom paxton song, or will soon sing a tom paxton song.
Now either all those folk singers are wrong or tom paxton is one hell of a folk singer.

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