“Bluegrass Sings Paxton” – ALBUM OUT NOW!

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August 30, 2024 — A multi-artist collection from Mountain Home Music Company, Bluegrass Sings Paxton — out now — is a sparkling, genre-wide salute to songwriter Tom Paxton, whose “The Last Thing On My Mind” and “I Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound” are bluegrass standards, but whose broader catalog has remained largely unexplored by the genre’s artists.

To highlight the depth and breadth of a body of work that helped to earn Paxton a Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, producers Cathy Fink and Jon Weisberger gathered a wide-ranging clutch of bluegrass singers and pickers, from Hall of Fame members to current award winners, tackling classics, hidden gems from across the decades, and even a couple of songs written specially for the project. With sympathetic readings, spirited performances and a palpable sense of artistic connection across generations, geographies and communities, Bluegrass Sings Paxton offers not just a tribute, but a well-rounded portrait of today’s bluegrass.

Bookending the set’s dozen entries are the most prominent Paxton touchstones, given freshly compelling treatments by two of the bluegrass community’s most treasured female-forward ensembles, Della Mae —joined here by Paxton himself — and Sister Sadie. Current IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year Greg Blake offers a similarly updated take on “Leaving London,” a song that has appeared on the set lists of both the iconic Hall of Famer Doc Watson and current stadium bluegrass phenom Billy Strings, while another Hall of Fame member, Alice Gerrard, turns in a gently swinging version of the minor-key “The Things I Notice Now.” Three-time IBMA Male Vocalist award recipient Danny Paisley eagerly took on “Ramblin’ Boy,” brought into bluegrass over 50 years ago by the Kentucky Mountain Boys,and still another IBMA Male Vocalist — and GRAMMY — award winner, Tim O’Brien, and his band contributed the project’s second single, a brand new, gospel-tinged song written by Paxton, O’Brien and bandmate Jan Fabricius, “You Took Me In.”