Reading my email on AOL tonight, I turned on the AOL Radio to the Folk station. Came in on the middle of Best of Friends sung by Tom Paxton, Anne Hills, and Bob Gibson. Ahhh the fine, time-tested harmonies. Paxton has been around since the mid-1960s, making music and records for adults and children. Bob Gibson, who died in 1996 (which makes this newly released recording even sweeter) started playing in the 1950s. Anne Hills, recording since the early 1980s, has sung with others like Paxton, Gibson, Cindy Mangsen and solo. This fall Hills is performing and singing with Priscilla Herdman and Mangsen
Sometimes, the voice that's been around sounds sweeter than those untried sopranos aching over the same romance and naivete. An old, new classic for sure.