Happy Tuesday Tribute! This week’s video is of my dad Hoyt Axton playing his song “When the Morning Comes” on The Midnight Special in 1975. “When the Morning Comes” was a single from his 1974 album ‘Life Machine’ & the studio version is a duet with Linda Ronstadt. The song itself charted well, reaching #10 on the US Country chart, while the album as a whole made it to #21 on the US Country album chart. This was the second highest any of his songs ever charted, after “Boney Fingers” which made it

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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