Editor’s note: Dust off your Wranglers and break out your stash. Over the next two weeks, Nightwatch spotlights two forgotten heroes of hippie country: Brewer & Shipley this week and Richie Furay next ...

Michael Brewer, half of the most successful folk/rock music act Kansas City has ever produced, died Tuesday, Dec. 17. He was 80. Brewer and Tom Shipley formed Brewer & Shipley in the late 1960s when ...

The duo Brewer & Shipley reached the Top 10 in 1971 with “One Toke Over the Line,” a ditty about marijuana that ran afoul of Nixon-era censors. By Alex Williams Michael Brewer, half of the folk-rock ...

Michael Brewer, one-half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley, has died. He was 80. On Tuesday, Dec. 17, Brewer's musical partner, Tom Shipley, confirmed the news of his death in a Facebook post. A ...

Tom Shipley, half of the 1960s and 1970s folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley, has died at age 84. His death on Aug. 24 was confirmed by his son Marc to the New York Times, though no cause was specified.

With their “One Toke Over the Line,” he and Michael Brewer saw a musical in-joke turn into a timeless cultural phenomenon. By Alex Williams Tom Shipley, half of the folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley, ...

Michael Brewer, half of the folk/rock duo Brewer & Shipley, died Dec. 17 at the age of 80. brewerandshipley.com Michael Brewer, half of the most successful folk/rock music act Kansas City has ever ...