- Wrote "Joy To The World" and "Never Been To Spain" for Three Dog Night.
- Mother is Mae Boren Axton who wrote Elvis Presley's hit song "Heartbreak Hotel" (1956).
- Axton spent a significant amount of time struggling with alcohol and cocaine addiction and several of his songs, including "The Pusher," "Snowblind Friend," and "No-No Song," chronicled his drug problems.
- He served in the US Navy aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5), before pursuing a music career. After his discharge, he began singing folk songs in San Francisco nightclubs.
- In the early 1960s he released his first folk album titled "The Balladeer," which was recorded at the legendary Troubadour. The album included his song "Greenback Dollar", a 1963 hit for The Kingston Trio.
- Best known country hits included "When the Morning Comes" and "Boney Fingers" (1974) and "Della and the Dealer" (1979).
- In November of 2007, the Oklahoma born-and-raised singer/songwriter was inducted posthumously, along with his mother, to the Oklahoma Country Music Hall of Fame in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
- Formed his own record label, Jeremiah Records, in 1978.
- Father of Mark Axton.
- Country and folk singer.
- Never quite recovered from a stroke suffered in 1995.
- Went to Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, FL and graduated in 1956.
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