''Redemption Road'' is the sixty-first album by American folk singer-songwriter
Tom Paxton
Thomas Richard Paxton (born October 31, 1937) is an American folk singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than fifty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. , released in March 2015.
Overview
Over 60 days, from 30 July 2014 to 28 September 2014, Tom Paxton called on
Kickstarter's services to finance his new studio album, collecting a $32,177 pledge (of a $20,000 goal) from 552 backers.
Though the album was not officially released until 10 March 2015, it was recorded in 2014, and can be fully streamed on Tom's official
SoundCloud
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page since 6 January 2015.
Track listing
All songs by Tom Paxton unless otherwise noted.
#"Virginia Morning" - 3:42
#"Susie Most of All" - 2:31
#"Time to Spare" - 3:55
#"The Losing Part" - 3:48
#"Skeeters'll Gitcha" - 2:23
#"Ireland" - 4:08
#"Come On, Holy"
(Tom Paxton, Jon Vezner
Jon Vezner (born June 6, 1951) is an American country music songwriter. He is best known for his work with Kathy Mattea, to whom he has been married since 1988.
Vezner began working as a songwriter in Minnesota and later moved to Nashville, Tenne ...
) - 2:56
#"If the Poor Don't Matter" - 3:26
#"The Mayor of MacDougal Street" - 4:01
#"Central Square" - 4:40
#"Buffalo Dreams" - 4:17
#"The Battle of the Sexes" - 2:55
#"Redemption Road"
(Geoff Bartley, Tom Paxton) - 3:44
#"The Parting Glass"
(Traditional) - 1:37
Personnel
Musicians
*Tom Paxton – lead vocal, acoustic guitar, arranger
*
Al Perkins
Al Perkins (born January 18, 1944) is an American guitarist known primarily for his steel guitar work. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential dobro player" and began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2 ...
- dobro
*
Cathy Fink
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- banjo, vocal harmony
*Tim Crouch - fiddle, mandolin
*Geoff Bartley - National steel guitar
*Robin Bullock - cittern, acoustic guitar
*Mark Howard - acoustic guitar
*
Dave Pomeroy
Dave Pomeroy (born April 26, 1956) is an American musician, known as a Nashville vocalist, songwriter, and producer (Earwave Productions), but is best known as a bassist. He has played electric and acoustic bass for many world renowned artists ...
- upright bass
*Pete Wasner - piano, Wurlitzer
*Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson - harmonica
*
John Mock - whistle
*Pat McInerney - drums
Vocalists
*Suzi Ragsdale - Vocal harmony
*
John Wesley Ryles
John Wesley Ryles (born December 2, 1950) is an American country music artist. Ryles recorded a string of hit country songs, beginning in 1968 when he was still a teenager, and continuing through the 1980s. He no longer records as a headline ar ...
- Vocal harmony
*Marcy Marxer - Vocal harmony
*
John Prine
John Edward Prine (; October 10, 1946 – April 7, 2020) was an American singer-songwriter of country-folk music. He was active as a composer, recording artist, live performer, and occasional actor from the early 1970s until his death. He ...
- Quotation author, lead vocal on "Skeeters'll Gitcha"
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Janis Ian
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child, Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)" an ...
- Vocal harmony on "Redemption Road"
Production and cover art
*Jim Rooney - Producer
*David Ferguson - Engineer, mixing
*Cathy Fink - Cover photo, engineer, executive producer, inside photo
*Pete Wasner - Engineer
*Sean Sullivan - Assistant engineer, mixing assistant
*Dave Shipley - Mastering
References
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2015 albums
Tom Paxton albums