The Captain & the Kid The Captain & the Kid The Captain & the Kid is the twenty-eighth studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John, released in 2006. It is his second autobiographical album with lyricist Bernie Taupin, picking up where 1975's "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" left off. "The Captain & the Kid" chronicles the events in their lives over those subsequent 30 years. "The Captain & the Kid" reached No. 6 in the UK, a considerable improvement over the performance of John's preceding "Peachtree Road" in 2004, which peaked at No. 21. It reached No. 18 in the US, before quickly
Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet) Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet) "Faster Horses (the Cowboy and the Poet)" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall. It was released in December 1975 as the second single from the album, "Faster Horses". The song was Hall's final number one on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart, spending one week at the top and a total of 13 weeks within the chart's top 40. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. The song is about a young,