Axton, Hoyt

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	Bessie Smith My Way New - LP - VJS 7306 First Copy We Have Ever Seen Of This Sealed, Rare 1974 Thick Vinyl Original. more
	Explodes Used - LP - VJLP 1098 1964 Original. Listen To The Rockabilly Roots From One Of The Original Southern California Singer/Song Writers. Includes The Giant Elvis Hit "Heartbreak Hotel". more
	Explodes! Used - LP - VJLP - 1098 Rainbow Label, Heavy Vinyl Stereo Original In Shrink Wrap more
	Fearless Used - LP - SP 4571 1976 White Label Promo In Custom Inner Sleeve. Clean COH, Appears Unplayed. more
	Fearless New - LP - SP 4571 Sealed 1976 Original. Features Appearances By Larry Carlton, Joe Sample, The Mircales, Jim Keltner And Tom Scott. more
	Greenback Dollar New - LP - VJS 1126 Sealed Stereo Original. more
	Hoyt Axton Sings Bessie Smith Used - LP - EX-301 1965 Mono Original. Interesting Bessie Smith Interpretations From The Eccentric Singer/Song Writer Himself. more
	Joy To The World Used - LP - SMAS-788 971 Gatefold Original. This Album Is Considered A Classic Of Axton, And Covers Of These Songs Have Been Turned Into Hits By Three Dog Night, Steppenwolf, And Waylon Jennings. Includes "Joy To The World", "Never Been To Spain" & "The Pusher". more
	Life Machine Used - LP - SP 3604 1974 White Label Promo In Custom Inner Sleeve. Appears Unplayed. “After The Interesting But Comparatively Uncommercial Less Than The Song, Hoyt Axton Justified A&M's Investment With Life Machine, The Album That Generated "Boney Fingers," His Biggest And Most Enduring Hit. "When The Morning Comes," Which Features Harmony Vocals By Linda Ronstadt, Also Made The Country Top Ten And Gave Axton His Only Pop Hit. "Geronimo's Cadillac" Is A Powerful Album Track, And Modernized Versions Of "That's All Right" And "Maybelline" Seem Appropriate For The Man Whose Mother Co-Wrote "Heartbreak Hotel." Elsewhere The Album Takes Some Unusual Detours Of The Sort That Axton's Fans Come To Either Anticipate Or Endure, Such As "Pet Parade," Which Is Practically A Children's Song, And The Slick, Funky "Telephone Booth." Axton's Four Albums For A&M Are Usually Considered His Best, And Of Those, Life Machine May Rate The Highest For The Inclusion Of His Two Big Hits.” – Greg Adams, All Music Guide more
	My Griffin Is Gone New - LP - KC 33103 Sealed, Rare 1974 Original. more
	My Griffin Is Gone Used - LP - CS 9766 Rare 1969 "360 Sound" Stereo Original. Includes Double Sided Lyric Sheet. From The Singer/Songwriter Noted For The Major FM Hits; "Joy To The World" & "Never Been To Spain" For Three Dog Night, The "No No Song" For Ringo Starr And "The Pusher" For Steppenwolf. Cover Shows Some Seam Wear. Vinyl Appears Glossy. more
	My Griffin Is Gone Used - LP - CS 9766 1969 US original Stereo 2-eye Santa Maria pressing with original inner & insert. Nice, glossy VG++ copy. Light ring & seam wear. Produced by Alex Hassilev. "Hoyt Axton was still in his first decade as a recording artist when he made this album, but it was a decade in which performing artists were certainly encouraged to think lofty thoughts. Pretension was as common on the radio in the late '60s as things would be in the '90s, hence we have an album, but sadly enough no song, on the theme of losing one's "griffin," typical Axton imagery that subtly invokes the wonder of childhood while pretending to be doing something else. He settles into some remarkable moods on the best parts of the album, communicating with such a sense of the natural that it makes the work of many other recording artists seem stilted. He can evoke the feeling of Colorado simply by mentioning the state as if in passing conversation; other singers would have to be recorded riding up and down a ski lift strumming in order to establish any equivalent sense of time and place. While his social commentary, such as "Beelzebub's Laughter," has the sting, if not the detail, of mid-period Phil Ochs, some of the songs -- such as "Way Before the Time of Towns" and "Revelations" -- ring so totally hollow, without any real sense of conviction or commitment, that the listener will be longing for one of the musicians to make a satirical raspberry. Instead it is a subdued, talented crowd doing the backup, pursuing a mood that can be quite effective when the ingredients are right -- roughly about half the time on this uneven but respectable production. Lead guitar is in the capable hands of James Burton, but this cannot be said to have been one of his most rip-roaring days in the studio." All Music Guide - Eugene Chadbourne. more
	Pistol Packin' Mama New - LP - JH 5003 Sealed 1982 Original, shrink tear. more
	Thunder 'N Lightnin' New - LP - WP 1613 Sealed 1963 Stereo Original. more