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“Outside the Southern Border
Along a thoroughfare
Footprints by the highway
Vanished into air

“The man without a shadow
Slipped by in the night
Fate had turned the tables
Until the morning light”

Bayou Texan: A Memoir of Known Facts
The life and times of a Greenhorn told in story and song

It’s hard to find a starting point when it comes to how I ran across John Murrell.  John Andrews Murrell – 1830 to 1844.  The Great Western Land Pirate who once led a Mystic Clan with designs to take over the Deep South.    

Cloaked in the frock of circuit rider, the outlaw bandit preached eloquent sermons to unsuspecting congregations, soon to be deprived of their belongings.  Today, the Brush Arbor Church is gone, but there are those who claim he still haunts the Old Natchez Trace.

That’s where I come in.  Bayou Texan, a High Plains Kid with designs to Rock-and-Roll who encounters the ghost of ‘Reverend Devil’ on Music Row – 1950 to present time.