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Thread #162877 Message #3879704
Posted By: Dave Sutherland
02-Oct-17 - 03:08 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Tom Paley (1928-2017)
Subject: RE: Obit: Tom Paley (1928-2017)
Very sorry to hear this news. We booked Tom at The Tiger in Long Eaton early 1994 just as Bob Dylan's "World Gone Wrong" album had been released and Tom had been cited as the source of some of the tracks that it contained. This naturally did his profile no harm at all and we had a capacity crowd at the club that night. The following morning he admitted that he hadn't seen the album so I showed him my copy which sparked off a plethora of tales about the early days in Greenwich Village and the U.S. folk scene in general to the extent that we nearly missed getting him to Nottingham bus station for his coach to London. As mentioned above, a true gentleman and an artist I always enjoyed hearing. RIP Tom.