Happy Tuesday Tribute! Today’s video is of my dad Hoyt Axton & his band performing “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” on Austin City Limits in 1979. “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” is a Christian hymn from 1907 that was popularized in country & folk music by The Carter Family in 1935. Their rewritten version was called “Can the Circle Be Unbroken.” Other popular versions/covers have been released by Bill Monroe, Bob Dylan, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, & The Doors. My dad’s version can be found on his ‘L

Happy Tuesday Tribute! Here’s a rare video of my dad Hoyt Axton playing “The Devil” live during a concert in 1981 that was aired on the German TV show “Musikladen.” “The Devil” first appeared as a track on my dad’s album ‘Country Anthem’ in 1971. This was one of his earlier albums & no songs from it charted. However, he also released the ‘Joy to the World’ album in 1971 & that one contained his versions of “Joy to the World” & “Never Been to Spain” which became big hits for Three Dog Night that