Tom Pacheco has been played on NTS shows including The Uline Catalog w/ Calvin LeCompte, with Hello Grandpa first played on 19 November 2020.

Tom Pacheco (born November 4, 1946 New Bedford, Massachusetts.) is an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Tom’s father, was a guitarist who played with Django Reinhardt as well as solo in the clubs of Europe before returning to the U.S. to raise a family and open a music store, where he also taught guitar.

At age 19, Tom released his first solo album: Turn Away From The Storm, a collection of all-original folk songs.

He left Massachusetts to study at Hofstra University in New York City, where he formed the band The Ragamuffins, which supported Jimi Hendrix

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) 1994 Luck Of Angels 1995 Bluefields 1997 Woodstock Winter 1998 Bare Bones & Barbed Wire 1999 The Lost American Songwriter (Bare Bones II) 2000 Nobodies (with Steinar Albrigtsen) 2002 There Was A Time 2005 Rebel Spring