Tom Paley - Sporting Life Blues

[SpareParts54]

More playing, less talk...

[fridrikur]

Did not know Tom Paley but heard him play buckdancers choice and I was blown away. Truly a great player.

[Chris180Z]

Brilliant.

[radioactivesugarplum]

Just seen Tom playing. I was at work too so i actually got paid to watch him!! He is awesome :D

[albertcooper]

Albert Cooper here and you are back in Norwich Tonight,remembering old times..Best wishes Tom

[stephenhayesuk]

Great peformance, great song. I love the playability and tone of parlour guitars, don't know why they're not more popular. The Tanglewood TW73 is a pretty good all solid cedar and mahogany copyof this Martin for a quarter of the price.

Thanks for posting.

[pjkeane]

Nobody gets as beautiful a tone as Tom Paley, as evidenced here. It's breathtaking.

[patrickpjr]

Best I've ever seen! Has anybody tabbed this? Where can I buy tablature for this version?

[kickingmule]

Wonderful performance !

Thanks !

Peace from Gothenburg Sweden

Urban

[cavdavidson]

I had the great pleasure of meeting Tom on the ferry from sweden to newcastle in december 2005. we stayed up all night playing and singing and drinking..anybody remember that? the guitar is 1929 as i recall, just a bit younger than Tom himself.

[slubberde]

The oringinal HARD LUCK PAPA playing a 0042 prewar Martin Guitar. Tom was a recording artist for Stefan Grossmans' Kicking Mule record label of the same name as above. I still play his dynamite version of Blind Blakes' EARLY MORNING BLUES; more triplets in that song than any man has every seen! His versions of MISSISSIPPI HEAVY WATER BLUES (Barbacue Bob), & FRANKLIN BLUES,(Sam McGee),

were also " vor allen Dingen "

[stringsideup]

Absolutely superb! Love the guitar playing, love the singing.

[rbell1941]

I was watching this afternoon (5/30/2008) and i see by this same day by evening it has been removed. This is regrettable. Why was it removed?

[lookinglassalice]

Tom is still ramblin' around...and sharing his great music! He played in Chico Calif. a couple of years ago. I am glad i can hear and see him on You Tube. He plays great Swedish fiddle tunes..as does his son, Ben.

[fingerpickle]

Great to see Tom again after all these years.

He and his wife stayed in our primitive house in Stockholm way back in 1963(?). I was then a busker and he tagged along home with us after a gig.

I remember he did a show in the Stockholm Cocert House with Joel Lattner (where's he now?)

He and his son Ben started to play swedish fiddle music - I remember. Must track them down.

[chilcootgirl]

Always one of my musical heroes--amazingly enough he's got the same guitar I saw him playing in NYC in 1958.

[halbar1925]

He stayed at my house after a concert here in Sacramento around 1961 along with John Cohen and Mike Seeger just at the time the Rambler's were breaking up, None of the three of them has ever got the credit they deserve for their contributiions to the preservation of old time music---Mike in particular.

[H1r9m3n4]

His voice is even better than fifty years ago!

[YaroandNightshade]

I rode up to the Northland bluegrass festival in northern Wisconsin with my friend, and we gave Tom Paley a ride to it. He had many good stories to tell and was pretty damn hillarious. He played this song at the show. Before the festival, I had never heard of Tom Paley. I will never forget that experience of getting to know him over the festival.

[daddystovepipe]

Great to see and hear this legendary musician!