🎵 AotW AOTW: Hoyt Axton - ROAD SONGS (SP-4669)

[LPJim]

Hoyt Axton
ROAD SONGS
A&M SP-4669

This is a compilation of songs released earlier, featuring guest musicians James Burton and Linda Ronstadt.

TRACKS:

No No Song
Boney Fingers
In a Young Girl's Mind
Telephone Booth
Pai in Advance
Lion in the Winter

I Love to Sing
When the Morning Comes
Lay Lady Lay
Sweet Misery
Flashing Fire
Less Than the Song

Reissued as SP 3182 and later on CD, available via amazon.com

JB

 

[Dave]

What I thought was the best album to come from Hoyt Axton on A&M--till I tried all four original albums he made & even went back to the stuff on Columbia & Capitol then forward to the stuff on Jeremiah (an homage to his "Joy To The World") and MCA...

A "two-disc" however, might truly better serve, but a still good and thoroughly interesting career summation, otherwise...



Dave

 

[Harry]

I remember "When The Morning Comes" getting airplay, but cannot recall any of the rest.

Harry

 

[Dave]

Hmmmm, somehow "Lay, Lady, Lay" has always sounded familiar to me, and I'd must have heard it before radio stations probably "switched back" to Bob Dylan's original; that then was what I became familiar with afterward...

"Less Than The Song" must have been popular enough that when I saw Patti Page in concert, she also sang this one... (Surprising, too, how "I am less than the song I am singing..." was her second number, as well...)

A usual compilation that mainly revolves around what got radio play and in Hoyt's case, maybe by a lot of Country Music stations fitted these songs in their formats...



Dave