Fast and Low
2005 · USA
- Artist
- Toby Hughes
- Title
- Fast and Low
- Release
- Fast and Low
- Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Toby Hughes
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Notes
Lydia Fish notes recordings of Toby Hughes, the F-4C pilot and "balladeer of the in-country air war", added by Erosonic around 2005. [From Lydia Fish and Pop a Smoke]
About the artist
American Air Force fighter pilot, 'the balladeer of the in-country air war'. F-4C Aircraft Commander with the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Cam Ranh Bay, 1968; flew 204 missions including support of Khe Sanh during the Tet Offensive; wrote 'Tchepone', the most popular song of the air war. Performer on 'In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War' (Flying Fish, 1991). [Source: In Country liner notes]