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Thread #12525   Message #99440
Posted By: Dave Swan
26-Jul-99 - 06:32 PM
Thread Name: The Most Romantic Song You Know???
Subject: RE: The Most Romantic Song You Know???
Kat,

I think the album with Lay, Lady, Lay is called Southbound. On another Hoyt Axton album you'll find a song called Free Sailing which puts a tear in my eye just about every time I hear it. One of Hoyt's guitarists fell in love with one of the girl singers in the band and wrote it for her. They got jobs in Silicon Valley, married and left the band. Not long before Hoyt's stroke he played The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and the now married lovers joined him for the show. I got to hear Free Sailing sung by Hoyt and the writer(whose name escapes me at the moment)to the girl who was the subject of the song. Pretty damn sweet. Cheers, D.