Redemption Road (album)
| Redemption Road | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 6 January 2015 (streaming) 10 March 2015 (CD) | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | Pax | |||
| Producer | Jim Rooney | |||
| Tom Paxton chronology | ||||
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Redemption Road is the sixty-first album by American folk singer-songwriter Tom Paxton, released in March 2015.
Overview
[edit]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.[1] 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 page since 6 January 2015.[2]
Track listing
[edit]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) - 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
[edit]Musicians
[edit]- Tom Paxton – lead vocal, acoustic guitar, arranger
- Al Perkins - dobro
- Cathy Fink - banjo, vocal harmony
- Tim Crouch - fiddle, mandolin
- Geoff Bartley - National steel guitar
- Robin Bullock - cittern, acoustic guitar
- Mark Howard - acoustic guitar
- Dave Pomeroy - upright bass
- Pete Wasner - piano, Wurlitzer
- Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson - harmonica
- John Mock - whistle
- Pat McInerney - drums
Vocalists
[edit]- Suzi Ragsdale - Vocal harmony
- John Wesley Ryles - Vocal harmony
- Marcy Marxer - Vocal harmony
- John Prine - Quotation author, lead vocal on "Skeeters'll Gitcha"
- Janis Ian - Vocal harmony on "Redemption Road"
Production and cover art
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Tom Paxton's New Recording-Redemption Road". Kickstarter. 28 September 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ^ "Tom Paxton Free Listening on SoundCloud". SoundCloud. 6 January 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
