Tom Paxton - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: In Concert, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, Britain, 11-30-1995

Here is the fifth volume of Tom Paxton performing for the BBC... for now. I know of at least three BBC concerts he did between the last volume I posted, of a 1972 concert, and this one. I just can't find them. So who knows, perhaps we'll see a renumbering of this album eventually.

Paxton has been releasing roughly about an album a year since the mid-1960s. While he definitely has some older classics, he generally performed newer songs here, with the first two and last two songs being exceptions. One nice thing about this concert is that apparently folk singer Carolyn Hester was on the same bill (although I can't find her set), so she came out in the middle of the concert and sang with Paxton, and also came back for the last two songs.

This album is unreleased. The sound quality is very good.

This album is 54 minutes long. 

UPDATE: On November 11, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same. But I found an earlier volume in this series that I'd missed, so the volume number changed. That meant the title, cover art, and mp3 tags changed too. 

01 Bottle of Wine (Tom Paxton)
02 talk (Tom Paxton)
03 What Did You Learn in School Today (Tom Paxton)
04 talk (Tom Paxton)
05 Bobbitt (Tom Paxton)
06 talk (Tom Paxton)
07 Looking for the Moon (Tom Paxton)
08 talk (Tom Paxton)
09 Getting Up Early (Tom Paxton with Carolyn Hester)
10 Passing through Tulsa (Tom Paxton with Carolyn Hester)
11 talk (Tom Paxton with Carolyn Hester)
12 Along the Verdigris (Tom Paxton with Carolyn Hester)
13 talk (Tom Paxton)
14 Anytime (Tom Paxton)
15 talk (Tom Paxton)
16 A Long Way from Your Mountain (Tom Paxton)
17 talk (Tom Paxton)
18 Little Girl (Tom Paxton)
19 talk (Tom Paxton)
20 Johnny Got a Gun (Tom Paxton)
21 talk (Tom Paxton)
22 The First Song Is for You (Tom Paxton)
23 It Was a Night like This (Tom Paxton)
24 talk (Tom Paxton)
25 The Last Thing on My Mind (Tom Paxton with Carolyn Hester)
26 talk (Tom Paxton with Carolyn Hester)
27 Ramblin' Boy (Tom Paxton with Carolyn Hester)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/owBroj4E

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/sk367krpR2G2RYz/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Burnsville, Minnesota, on June 25, 1995.

Various Artists - Folk America at the Barbican - Greenwich Village Revisited, Barbican Theatre, London, Britain, 2-13-2009

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've been finding a lot of new BBC related music lately, as I keep searching for things for my big BBC project. I recently stumbled across this. It seems that in 2009, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg hosted a TV series about American folk music. The final episode (the fourth, I think) was this concert, which starred some of the most important singers from the 1960s folk movement. As you can tell from the subtitle, "Greenwich Village Revisited," there was a particular emphasis in picking people from the influential Greenwich Village scene in New York City. In addition to Bragg, a Briton who first got famous in the 1980s, the concert starred Roger McGuinn of the Byrds, Carolyn Hester, Eric Andersen, and Judy Collins.

The entire concert was acoustic in nature, which was fitting, given the folk music they were paying tribute to. Each singer got to sing two or three songs (actually four in the case of McGuinn), and then they all came together at the end to do "Amazing Grace" as an encore.

If you like this type of music, this is a really nice concert. I believe it's unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 I Ain't Got No Home (Billy Bragg)
02 talk (Billy Bragg)
03 My Back Pages (Roger McGuinn)
04 talk (Roger McGuinn)
05 Oh Freedom (Roger McGuinn)
06 talk (Roger McGuinn)
07 Eight Miles High (Roger McGuinn)
08 talk (Roger McGuinn)
09 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Roger McGuinn)
10 talk (Billy Bragg)
11 talk (Carolyn Hester)
12 The Last Thing on My Mind (Carolyn Hester)
13 talk (Carolyn Hester)
14 The House of the Rising Sun (Carolyn Hester)
15 talk (Billy Bragg)
16 I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night (Billy Bragg)
17 talk (Billy Bragg)
18 Violets of Dawn (Eric Andersen)
19 talk (Eric Andersen & Roger McGuinn)
20 Thirsty Boots (Eric Andersen with Roger McGuinn)
21 talk (Billy Bragg)
22 Both Sides Now (Judy Collins)
23 talk (Judy Collins)
24 Anathea (Judy Collins)
25 Someday Soon (Judy Collins)
26 talk (Judy Collins)
27 Amazing Grace (Judy Collins & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MsBkvi6j

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/kYDFYTvdQgOVFwe/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. However, I did a lot of manipulation in Photoshop to get it just as I wanted it. I started with a screenshot taken during the final song. But the image quality was very low-res. So I then took screenshots of the heads of each of the people in the image. I pasted those in for higher quality. I then ran the resulting image through the Krea AI program to iron out the kinks from having this really made out of six images. That helped. But then I did it again, and that helped some more.