Here’s my pop Hoyt Axton playing “Cowboys On Horses With Wings” live from The Swap Shop in Fort Lauderdale, FL on TNN in the early 90’s. This song appeared on his album ‘Spin the Wheel’ from 1990. This was my pop’s final full album and although no songs from it charted, it is classic Hoyt through and through! My dad was an amazing storyteller & lyricist, as evidenced by the beautiful lyrics in this song. “My father was my only hero, he taught me to love & to sing/the stories he told were like si

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Here’s my dad Hoyt Axton playing “Sweet Misery” in the early 70s. This song appeared as the first track on & single from his 1973 album ‘Less Than A Song’ and then later, on his 1977 compilation album ‘Road Songs.’ It didn’t chart, but it is still one of his better known songs. “Sweet Misery” was covered by John Denver in 1973 and Martha Reeves & the Vandellas in 1974, both very different but great versions of this ‘lil Hoyt tune. I released my own version of “Sweet Misery” on my last album ‘Blu

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