Due to the course of another thread started by Gern, I went looking for lyrics to a song and chanced to read the Wikipedia article about him. (Also found this along the way.) Six thousand songs he wrote, and 300 were recorded by other people. And for the past forty or so years I have thought that "The Battle of New Orleans" was not only sung but also written by Johnny Horton.

Anyway, who knows what about the man? Six THOUSAND songs.

If this thread shouldn't be under 'Folklore', please excuse me and move it to where you deem it appropriate.

---

For our purposes, we use "folklore" for non-music stuff that is related to music. This thread would fall in the "general music" category because Jimmie Driftwood was quite a musician.
-Joe Offer-