You're listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.

My name is Mark Lintonmeyer.

My guest for episode 252 is Tom Paxton.

He started on the New York City folk scene in the early 60s, whipping out his original tunes before Bob Dylan did.

And you're right now hearing, I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound from his second album, Rambling Boy.

From 1964, this is one of his biggest hits. He has since recorded over 50 albums, not even including the many, many live recordings.

We're going to talk about Rebel Gal from his latest Together Again, a collaborative album with

John McCutcheon. Then we'll look back a bit to If the Poor Don't Matter from 2015's

Redemption Road, and then all the way back to Mr. Blue from Morning Again, 1968.

We'll conclude by listening to The Death of Stephen Biko from Best of Friends, a group with

Anne Hills and Bob Gibson that was recorded live in 1984.

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So I will have played a little bit of, I can't help but wonder where I'm bound from Ramblin Boy, 1964, just as an orienting thing.

Probably people have heard that song.

Of course, maybe you're even more famous song than more people have heard, although they don't know it's you, is going to the zoo from that same time period.

Was that right?

Right?

I mean, that at least was, I don't know, taught to me music classes.

I should also say my dad is, he's turning 95 soon, a folk singer from the early 60s in the San Francisco

area.

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