![]() His is the real voice of America he speaks for decent Americans.” The following year, he was the recipient of a 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance, honoring “those who have devoted their life’s work and talent to the advancement of folk music and dance.” And in January 2007, the British Parliament paid official tribute to his life and work, in which Lord Neil Kinnock described Paxton, a perennial UK favorite, as “one of the great folksingers. In 2005, Tom received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting at BBC Radio 2’s Folk Awards in London. In December 2008, it was announced that Tom will recieve a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 51st Annual Grammy ceremonies, and his 2009 CD, Comedians & Angels, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the “Best Traditional Folk Album” category. The only sign that Tom may be slowing down a bit is that his past is catching up to him. More than forty years later, the earnest, clean-cut kid has evolved into a twinkling-eyed grandfather who has forged a legendary reputation for his singing, songwriting and stage skills over the course of thousands of concerts, hundreds of original songs and dozens of albums. It seems like only yesterday that Tom Paxton arrived in New York’s Greenwich Village as a fresh-faced member of the Army reserves who commuted from Fort Dix on weekends to haunt the Village’s mushrooming folk clubs, performing at small “basket houses” and sleeping on friends’ floors until it was time to return to the New Jersey military base.
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