The Things I Notice Now

Tom Paxton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 29, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B0017IKQZS
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #297,890 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bishop Cody's Last Request

2. Wish I Had A Troubadour

3. About The Children

4. I Give You The Morning

5. The Things I Notice Now

6. The Iron Man

7. All Night Long

Editorial Reviews

Tom Paxton has been performing great folk music for over 40 years. This CD is his classic recording from 1969 and includes About The Children and All Night Long.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting attempt to reach beyond the folksinger mold, October 16, 2010

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AJ Scheiber (Minnesota, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Things I Notice Now (Audio CD)

This Tom Paxton album comes from that period where folkies were stretching beyond acoustic guitars and Appalachian-derived melodies to incorporate instrumental and melodic / harmonic elements of rock, jazz, and even art-song forms (think Phil Ochs' "Pleasures of the Harbor" or Tim Buckley's "Goodbye and Hello"). Tom Paxton's voice isn't as adaptable to such a musical environment as some of these others, but the batch of songs he comes up with here show a nice stylistic variety ("Bishop Cody's Last Request" is juiced-up, "HIghway 61"-style folk rock, the title cut a self-deprecating Mose Allison-like jazz-blues, for instance). And Paxton really reaches with "The Iron Man," essentially a political novel in the form of a song cycle that took up nearly all of Side Two on the original LP. There's a lot to admire here, and although in the end it's neither as satisfying as some of Paxton's stronger "straight folk" albums (like "Outward Bound") or similar experiments by folkies with suppler, more expressive voices, I still find myself drawn deeply into it whenever I put it on the stereo.