Ramblin’ Boy by Tom Paxton (Vinyl record album review)

Record basics

Album name: Ramblin’ Boy

Artist name: Tom Paxton

Year: 1964

Number of discs: one

Label: Elektra Records

Collection: Brenner / Gessner

Who owned it: could have been either of my parents, but I think my mother

Buy it on Amazon: $10.89

My review

Level of familiarity before listening

I don’t think I have any familiarity with this record or its creator.

What I expected

This looks very folky.

What it was actually like

Tom Paxton definitely has a better voice than Bob Dylan, but I’m not sure how much that says about either of them.

I liked the banjo in A Rumblin’ in the Land and in High Sheriff of Hazard.

Harper had that nice banjo and I thought it also had great energy and pacing.

Standing on the Edge of Town was also lively and relatively good.

The title track Ramblin’ Boy had an old timey, country and western type sound that was all right.

When Morning Breaks was mostly slower and more boring, but I liked the intensity at a few parts of it.

A lot of these songs sounded weirdly like children’s music, but Goin’ to the Zoo really stood out that way:

Mommy’s takin’ us to the zoo tomorrow
Zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow
Mommy’s takin’ us to the zoo tomorrow
We can stay all day
We’re goin’ to the zoo, zoo, zoo
How about you, you, you?
You can come too, too, too
We’re goin’ to the zoo, zoo, zoo
&c, &c.

Grade

3/5: interesting, but not for me