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Peace, Love and Anarchy is good, too.

 

Todd's my boy. If you get a chance, score his Moondawg discs. It's a 5 cd set put together by a fan of all live stuff. Excellent compilation and worth hours of great Todd stories and tunes. You need to get on the listserve list and folks will offer to send them out as long as you agree to re-send to another group once you have them.

 

I haven't really got into Peace, Love and Anarchy as much as I'd hoped. I think I was really expecting some rare gems. There's some good songs but a lot of them seem like throwaways. I'll have to give it another listen and see if it grows on me more.

 

I haven't come across that Moondawg set you mention. I probably have about 25-30 Todd live shows though. It was the live bootlegs that first turned me into a big fan. Now I just have to find Step Right Up and Viva Satellite as these are the only studio discs I don't have. I've seen them on Amazon but they were selling for $30-80, mainly used copies too. Hopefully they get re-released so I can find them at a reasonable price.

 

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A farmboy from Kentucky Hills

Learned to play guitar for his backpoarch thrills

Lean a ladderback chair on a windowsill

And look out at the stars

He must have got it up in Michigan

He and his brothers were pickin then

When he moved to Gary he took it with him

That Gibson Hummingbird guitar

 

Oh how that guitar would ring

Dad would close his eyes and sing

Silver Haired Daddy would always bring a tear to his eyes

 

I was all of five years old

My brother Don and a kid down the road

We just did what we was told to get outside and play

Someone wrapped it in a coat

And we took it to the swamp just to see if it'd float

But a Hummingbird is not a boat

And it sank straight away

 

When he got home that's when he heard

What we'd done to that Hummingbird

And he looked at me and never said a word

Just went out back to see

 

 

And there it was in all it's mess

With the cattails and the redwing nests

And there he laid it down to rest for all eternity

 

One of these days you know what I'll do

Get a Hummingbird guitar and a brother or two

Underneath a Kentucky moon, give him back his childhood dream

It won't make up for thirty-two years

And it won't dry up a swamp of tears

But it's better than a case of beer and a fifth of Jim Beam

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