"I LOVE", "SNEAKY SNAKE", "I CARE" and All The Rest Are Back! A New Generation Can Fall In Love with Fox Hollow!

What do Patty Griffin, Duane Eddy, Bobby Bare, and Buddy Miller have in common, besides being icons of American music?

They’re Tom T. Hall fans, and this new record proves it.

Releasing May 23, 2011. Music for kids of all ages. Just in time for Tom T. Hall's 75th birthday, producers Peter Cooper & Eric Brace have created a gem of Americana music by recording the songs on Tom. T's great 1974 album, Songs of Fox Hollow. They gathered the perfect cast at Tom T.'s Fox Hollow farm last summer: Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, Bobby Bare, Duane Eddy, Jim Lauderdale, Peter Cooper, Eric Brace & Last Train Home, Elizabeth Cook & Tim Carroll, Gary Bennett, Jon Byrd, Mark & Mike, Tommy Cash, Fayssoux Starling McLean, and even Tom T. Hall, who sang on a new song he wrote for the occasion with wife Dixie Hall. A co-release of East Nashville indie label Red Beet Records and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's CMF Records.

Tom T, Miss Dixie, Duane Eddy, Patty Griffin and more talk about making the record at Fox Hollow

The original Songs of Fox Hollow was born one long-ago summer, when two young nephews of Tom T. and Dixie Hall spent the summer roaming the farm and asking Tom T. a host of questions about the land and the animals. To the kids, Fox Hollow was a place of activity and enchantment, and pretty soon Tom T.’s answers began to rhyme. The record that came about offers kids laughter, melody, and lessons in kindness, care, and conservation. For adults, it offers the same, as well as a welcome window into our kids’ thoughts and feelings.

When it was released in 1974, Tom T. Hall’s Songs of Fox Hollow produced three No. 1 hits, “I Love,” “I Care,” and “Sneaky Snake,” and the album entered the consciousness of a generation. Here at Red Beet we decided it was time for another generation to hear these wonderful songs, so we set out to re-imagine the time-honored work. For a week in June 2010, Peter Cooper and Eric Brace rounded up fellow Tom T. fans and headed to Fox Hollow, the farm that inspired “Songs of Fox Hollow” and is still home to Tom T. and Dixie Hall. Over three magical days in this idyllic setting just south of Nashville, they recorded the eleven songs that made up the original Songs of Fox Hollow, plus a brand new tune written especially for this release by Tom T. and Dixie.

Titled I Love: Tom T. Hall’s Songs of Fox Hollow, the CD features a different vocalist on each song: Patty Griffin sings “I Love,” Buddy Miller performs “Sneaky Snake,” Bobby Bare sings “I Care,” Jim Lauderdale’s take on “I Like to Feel Pretty Inside,” Eric Brace sings “The Mysterious Fox of Fox Hollow,” and Tom T. himself joins Fayssoux Starling McLean on the Hall’s new song, “I Made a Friend of a Flower Today.” Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Duane Eddy lends his twangy guitar to two of the tracks.

Just in time for Tom T. Hall’s 75th birthday, producers Peter Cooper and Eric Brace have assembled the perfect cast to pay tribute to country music’s greatest storytelling songwriter. Gathered in the recording studio at Tom T.’s Fox Hollow farm, the group put their own spin on the Country Music Hall of Famer’s most beloved work, his 1974 album, Songs of Fox Hollow.

Indie label Red Beet Records has joined with the Country Music Hall of Fame’s CMF Records to release what is destined to be a new children’s classic, I Love: Tom T. Hall’s Songs of Fox Hollow. The album also includes Jim Lauderdale, Tommy Cash, Elizabeth Cook, Eric Brace & Last Train Home, Peter Cooper, and many more, including Tom T. himself.
The record release will take place on May 25th at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Ford Theater.

FOR MORE INFO: www.songsoffoxhollow.com

1. I Love Patty Griffin 2. Sneaky Snake Buddy Miller featuring Duane Eddy 3. Everybody Loves To Hear A Bird Sing Peter Cooper with Baker Maultsby & Duane Eddy 4. I Like To Feel Pretty Inside Jim Lauderdale 5. The Mysterious Fox of Fox Hollow Eric Brace & Last Train Home 6. I Wish I Had A Million Friends Elizabeth Cook & Tim Carroll 7. The Barn Dance Gary Bennett 8. The Song of the One-Legged Chicken Mark &; Mike 9. How To Talk To A Little Baby Goat Jon Byrd 10. Ole Lonesome George the Basset Tommy Cash 11. I Care Bobby Bare 12. I Made A Friend of a Flower Today Fayssoux Starling McLean &  Tom T. Hall The Band: Pedal Steel Guitar Hall of Famer Lloyd Green,  a gentle maverick who altered the musical language of country  music and played on recordings by Paul McCartney,  The Byrds, Charley Pride, Don Williams, and thousands  of others;  Jen Gunderman (keyboards, accordion, spoons), a veteran  of The Jayhawks and Last Train Home who has lately  been in the studio with such artists as John Prine,  Emmylou Harris, and Lyle Lovett;  Mike Bub (bass), a five-time IBMA award winner and  a Grammy winner for his work in the Del McCoury Band  who has played with Earl Scruggs, Jimmy Martin,  John Hartford, and Bill Monroe;  Mark Horn (drums), a former Derailer who has  also played with Chuck Mead, Todd Snider,  and many more. Mark also sang about  the one-legged chicken. Check out the participating artists: Tom T. Hall: http://www.tomthall.net Patty Griffin:http://www.pattygriffin.com Buddy Miller: http://www.buddymiller.com Duane Eddy: http://www.duaneeddycircle.com Peter Cooper: http://www.petercoopermusic.com Jim Lauderdale: http://www.jimlauderdale.com Eric Brace: http://www.redbeetrecords.com Elizabeth Cook: http://www.elizabeth-cook.com Tim Carroll: http://www.myspace.com/timcarrollmusic Gary Bennett: http://www.garybennettmusic.com Mark & Mike: http://www.supeline.comJon Byrd: http://www.jonbyrd.com Tommy Cash: http://www.tommycash.com Fayssoux McLean: http://www.myspace.com/fayssouxmclean Album artwork Julie Sola: http://www.fatcrowpress.com Design Bill Thompson Videography: Stacie Huckeba: http://www.imagesbystacie.com              Red Beet Records: http://www.redbeetrecords.com Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum:http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com

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