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The song tells a story about the adventures of a man and his horse, a courageous, sun-colored, green-eyed stallion he nicknamed the "Tennessee Stud". The song's timeline appears to take place during a period of over twenty years, beginning in 1825 and ending after the Great Flood of 1844.
James Corbitt Morris (June 20, 1907 – July 12, 1998), [1] known professionally as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was an American folk-style songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New Orleans" and "Tennessee Stud". Driftwood wrote more than 6,000 folk songs, [1] of which more than 300 were recorded by various ...
Sorrow, the name of the carnie's horse in the Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds song "The Carnie" Stewball, from the eponymous song by Peter, Paul and Mary; The Strawberry Roan, an unrideable horse in the eponymous song performed by Marty Robbins, Chris LeDoux, and others; The Tennessee Stud, the horse in the eponymous song written by Jimmy Driftwood ...
After the folk revival waned during the late 1960s, Doc Watson's career was sustained by his performance of the Jimmy Driftwood song "Tennessee Stud" on the 1972 live album recording Will the Circle Be Unbroken. As popular as ever, Doc and Merle began playing as a trio with T. Michael Coleman on bass guitar in 1974.
Axton struggled with cocaine addiction, and several of his songs, including "The Pusher", "Snowblind Friend" and "No No Song", partly reflect his experiences with the drug. [2] He was a proponent of medical marijuana use, but he and his wife Deborah were arrested in February 1997 at their Montana home for possession of about 500 g (1.1 lb) of ...
High Horse (Nelly, Blanco Brown, Breland song) Horse Outside; A Horse with No Name; Horses in My Dreams; I. I Got the Hoss; J. ... Tennessee Stud; U. The Unicorn ...
The Christmas classic is also now the official holiday song of Tennessee. In 2023, made it to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, making Lee the oldest artist to ever top the chart.
In that role, he recorded his own song, "Eli's Blue", a lament about a man who accidentally shot his dog. Ferguson wrote several other songs, including the million seller, "Carroll County Accident", [5] first recorded by Porter Wagoner. In 1969 it received a Country Music Award for the "Song of the Year".