Heruitgave uit 2015 van twee oude albums van Tom Paxton op 1 cd: "Peace Will Come", oorspronkelijk uit 1972 en "New Songs For Old Friends" uit 1973.
"Tom Paxton and Anne Hills are the type of political songwriters that the Old Left would have been proud of. When most singer-songwriters plugged in and started gazing at their navels, Paxton and Hills remained true to causes great and small. Well- known and respected, they choose to put these causes - the death penalty, environmentalism, and poverty - forward, and not themselves. The heart and soul of Under American Skies lies in songs that passionately take up the causes of the dispossessed. (...) Paxton and Hills add a number of tuneful, romantic songs that lighten the heavy load. Their voices work well together and the simple arrangements perfectly underline the material". (Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., www.acousticmusic.com).
Album uit 2002 van Tom Paxton, met gastoptredens van Nanci Griffith en Anne Hills. "The songs are full of the low key humor and tender passion that are Paxtons trademark." (Paste Magazine, 2003).
"These are the songs that made Tom Paxton's name on the early-'60s Greenwich Village folk scene, but they're not the original versions -- instead they're re-recordings made in 1986. Not politically impassioned enough to be Phil Ochs, although the hymn-like "Peace Will Come" is a moving anti-war anthem, nor as inscrutably poetic as Bob Dylan, Paxton remained a second-string figure to the masses who casually followed the collegiate folk boom of the time. But to those in the know, Paxton has always been considered one of the greats. Owner of a homely, unprepossessing voice that's nonetheless a subtle and varied instrument, Paxton exudes an aw-shucks informality and endearing casualness on even his most "produced" tracks. The song selection covers his '60s and early '70s output; it's a fair introduction to his work, but compilations that include original recordings will be preferred by most." (Allmusic)
Folk-singer/songwriter. Overzicht van z'n meestgeroemde periode, 1964-71. Veel werk van toen handelt over de tragische absurditeit van de Vietnam-oorlog die de VS meenden te moeten voeren. Met oa 't hilarische 'Talking Vietnam Potluck Blues'.
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