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  2. Cocaine Blues - Wikipedia

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    Davis' version of "Cocaine Blues" was subsequently recorded by a number of artists in the folk revival/singer-songwriter tradition, including Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1958 on Jack Takes the Floor and 1995 on South Coast), Richard Fariña and Eric Von Schmidt (1963), Hoyt Axton (1963, on Thunder 'n Lightnin), Davey Graham (1964, on Folk, Blues and ...

  3. Hoyt Axton - Wikipedia

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    Axton struggled with cocaine addiction, and several of his songs, including "The Pusher", "Snowblind Friend" and "No No Song", partly reflect his experiences with the drug. [2] He was a proponent of medical marijuana use, but he and his wife Deborah were arrested in February 1997 at their Montana home for possession of about 500 g (1.1 lb) of ...

  4. No No Song - Wikipedia

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    "No No Song" is a 1974 song by English musician Ringo Starr. Written by Hoyt Axton and David Jackson, it appeared on Starr's 1974 album, Goodnight Vienna.It was released as a single in the US on 27 January 1975, backed with "Snookeroo," [nb 1] [1] and reached No. 1 in Canada, [2] #3 in the Billboard charts, [3] becoming his 7th and last top 10 hit.

  5. The Pusher - Wikipedia

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    "The Pusher" is a rock song written by Hoyt Axton in 1963, made popular by the 1969 movie Easy Rider which used Steppenwolf's version to accompany the opening scenes showing drug trafficking. The lyrics of the song distinguish between a dealer in drugs such as marijuana —who "will sell you lots of sweet dreams"—and a pusher of hard drugs ...

  6. Cathy Smith - Wikipedia

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    After Lightfoot and the Band, around 1976, Smith became a backup singer for Hoyt Axton, who was struggling with cocaine addiction at the time. [23] She sang on his album Fearless (1976) and co-wrote the song "Flash of Fire" with Axton. [24] Smith began using heroin in the late 1970s.

  7. Unchained (David Allan Coe album) - Wikipedia

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    He also covers Hoyt Axton’s “Snowblind Friend," an anti-drug song originally recorded by Steppenwolf in 1970 but quite timely in the cocaine-addled 1980s during Nancy Reagan’s War on Drugs campaign.

  8. Category:Songs written by Hoyt Axton - Wikipedia

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  9. Oriental Beat - Wikipedia

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    Over the years, Hanoi Rocks members have stated their dissatisfaction with the mixing of Oriental Beat.The original multitrack recordings of the album were found in 2020 after being lost for over 30 years and a newly mixed version, labeled Oriental Beat - 40th Anniversary Re(al)mix was released on March 17, 2023.