Your Saturday Southern Music Break
A Victory Lap with 'Ole Rebel'
A Victory Lap with 'Ole Rebel'
Hoyt Axton is an often overlooked Southern musician with his deep, rough baritone voice. But this Oklahoma native was also a prolific song writer, who came by his trade gentically since his mother, Mae Boren Axton, wrote hits such as ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ Made famous by Elvis. Likewise Hoyt was the pen behind the scenes on famous hits recorded by the Three Dog Night, Ringo Starr, John Denver, as well as Elvis and others.
Hoyt even became a popular character actor in movies and TV, starting withan episode of Bonanza. Here’s Hoyt Axton with an upbeat rendition of Major John Innes Randolph’s lamentation, “I’m a Good Ole Rebel:”
God Bless the South ‼️✝️ I had my GG grandfather lost an arm and an uncle lost his leg fighting outta Georgia and one was a Captain who was over Fort Jackson and St Philip at the end of the Mississippi River and the other two fought out the swamp where we still have the only one of our family plantation house that no fuckin yankee would even sleep in to this day , we would burn it before giving it up or allow that to happen ‼️✝️