FREE MP3 OF “OLD SAM” FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM MOUNTAIN HOME
IN HONOR OF ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH – MARCH 2
Driving north out of Houston on I-45, you pass the 65 foot tall statue of Sam Houston that stands by the interstate near Huntsville, Texas.
He was a governor of Tennessee, president of Texas, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Texas, but his life was complicated. He ran away from home as a boy to live with the Cherokee Indians, was nearly killed in battles by wounds in the groin, shoulder, and foot, was humiliated by rejection in an early short lived marriage, resigned from the governorship of Tennessee in disgrace, battled alcoholism, fought a Congressman with his cane, warned Texans that the Civil War would be brutal and that secession was a bad idea, and followed the code of “honor” above all.
This song is kind of an audio comic book about his life that Adam Carroll and I tried to write in the style of Johnny Horton songs like “The Battle of New Orleans.”
My favorite Sam Houston quote is, “To be honest and fear not is the right path.”
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