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Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over the Line (1970) Michael Brewer / Tom Shipley from: "Tarkio" (LP) "One Toke Over the Line" / "Oh Mommy" (I Ain't No Commie) (Single) "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (OST)

Folk Rock | Country Rock

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Personnel: Michael Brewer: Co-Lead Vocals / Acoustic Guitar Tom Shipley: Co-Lead Vocals / Acoustic Guitar Mark Naftalin: Keyboards Fred Burton: Electric Guitar John Kahn: Bass Bill Vitt: Drums

Produced by Nick Gravenites

(Jerry Garcia did not play pedal steel on this track. He played only on its B-Side)

Recorded: @ Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, California USA 1970

Album Released: 1970 Single Released: January, 1971 Kama Sutra Records

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas OST: Released on May 19, 1998 Geffen Records

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The American Songwriter: On This Day in 1971, a Forgotten Folk Duo Entered the Charts With a Controversial Hit… https://americansongwriter.com/on-this-day-in-1971-a-forgotten-folk-duo-entered-the-charts-with-a-controversial-hit-that-featured-jerry-garcia-and-appeared-in-a-johnny-depp-cult-classic/

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Remembering Michael Brewer from Brewer & Shipley

Tom Shipley, One-half of Brewer & Shipley, Dies at 84

Tom Shipley, one-half of the folk duo Brewer & Shipley, died of undisclosed causes Aug. 24 in a Missouri hospital.

He was 84.

“Tom lived a life centered on love, passion, creativity, romance,” his obituary, posted to social media Sept. 3, reads.

“Everything revolved around family and home, his art and the mystery of the nature of life itself. … Tom had endless curiosity. He was always ready to travel to someplace he had never been. He loved to explore a novel concept or treat an ancient wisdom like it was brand new.”

Also a writer and filmmaker, Shipley “was a unique and talented person who contributed to the world well beyond music,” the Dillards said.

Best known for “One Toke over the Line,” their 1970 paean to pot, Brewer & Shipley released nine albums and had their songs recorded by the Byrds, Don McLean, Stephen Stills, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and others.

Robert Cassard named his 1980 debut Over the Line in a nod to what he called “one of the classic weed songs,” but said Brewer & Shipley were more than that.

The duo “were fantastically inventive two-part harmony singers and arrangers,” Cassard said. “They had a knack for paralleling each other’s voices, then diverging into separate lines that wove together like magic.”

Michael Brewer died in 2024.