About this episode

Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon discuss their collaboration during the pandemic and their new album Together Again.

Tom Paxton and John McCutcheon are stalwarts of the folk music scene, and they’ve both issued successful Children’s records. Now, during the Pandemic, the two friends decided to “meet up” the only way they could, over Zoom - every Monday at 2pm. This virtual partnership produced over a hundred songs, with the first batch being issued in 2023 as Together. Now comes, appropriately titled, Together Again, 14 more collaborations that play on both men’s strengths as storytellers.

People in this episode

Host: Tony Peters

Guests: Tom Paxton, John McCutcheon

Topics covered

• folk music
• children's records
• collaboration
• storytelling
• pandemic creativity

Keywords

• folk music
• children's music
• collaboration
• Zoom
• storytelling

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Together, Together Again

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