DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Guitarist and vocalist Ray Sawyer of the rock band Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show has died at the age of 81. Wearing a black eyepatch, Sawyer was the face of the band as they ...

In 1970, Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show’s demo tapes wound up in the hands of author and songwriter Shel Silverstein, who recruited the band to become a vessel for his music: The group would turn ...

“We were just a boogie bar band,” he said in a Southern ... Cummings dubbed the group Dr. Hook. He added “and the Medicine Show” as a tribute to his Southern roots. The group eventually ...

Fifty years ago this week — on March 29, 1973, to be exact — the ragged New Jersey country-rock band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show got their wish: Rolling Stone put them on the cover.

How about the fact that today, March 29, marks exactly 40 years since the band Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show appeared (in caricature form) on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine? The rootsy ...

and “The Cover Of The Rolling Stone,” which turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy for Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show. Those songs relied on Silverstein’s inventive, subversive sense of humor.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Guitarist and vocalist Ray Sawyer of the rock band Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show has died at the age of 81. Wearing a black eyepatch, Sawyer was the face of the band as ...

Guitarist and vocalist Ray Sawyer of the rock band Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show has died at the age of 81. By Associated Press Guitarist and vocalist Ray Sawyer of the rock band Dr. Hook & The ...

Sawyer was best known as the face of Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, wearing a black eyepatch after losing his right eye in a 1967 car crash. According to the ’70s rock band’s website ...

they called themselves Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show. The band got its first its break when they recorded two Shel Silverstein-penned songs for the movie Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying ...