Tom Paxton remains a fixture in Washington's folk music community

Tom Paxton has announced that 2015 will be his last year of touring. The singer-songwriter, who will turn 78 in October, earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 for a long career that began in Oklahoma and blossomed in the 1960s New York folk scene with such songs as "The Last Thing on My Mind," "Ramblin' Boy" and "Bottle of Wine." For nearly 20 years, however, he has lived in Alexandria and become a fixture of the Washington folk community. And because he has promised to keep making ...