Tom Pacheco
American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist
Tomas Pacheco (born November 4, 1946 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has collaborated several times with the Norwegian singer and guitarist Steinar Albrigtsen.
Discography
Albums
1965 Turn Away from the Storm
1971 Pacheco & Alexander
1976 Swallowed Up in the Great American Heartland
1976 The Outsider
1989 Eagle in the Rain
1991 Sunflowers & Scarecrows
1992 Tales from the Red Lake
1993 Big Storm Comin' (with Steinar Albrigtsen), EU #85, NO #2
1994 Luck of Angels
1995 Bluefields
1997 Woodstock Winter (with members from The Band)
1998 Bare Bones & Barbed Wire
1999 The Lost American Songwriter (Bare Bones II)
2000 Nobodies (with Steinar Albrigtsen), NO #15
2002 There Was a Time
2003 Year of the Big Wind
2005 13 Stones (Bare Bones IV)
2005 Rebel Spring
2006 Bloodlines
2007 The Best of Tom Pacheco, The Secret Hits Vol. 1
2008 Railroad Rainbows & Talking Blues
2010 I'll Leave a Light for You
2011 The Best of Tom Pacheco, The Secret Hits Vol. 2
2023 The Pacheco Project (2023) (with Steinar Albrigtsen) – Tom Pacheco tribute album
Further reading
Christgau, Robert (April 26, 1976). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Capsule review of Pacheco's 1976 LP Swallowed Up in the Great American Heartland.
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