Daniels and L’Amour: The Next Generation - Soapbox Jr.
This is less of a Soapbox Jr. and more of a promotion for a couple of very special events for the family of the late Western author, Louis L'Amour.
As I have written about previously, Louis – Pronounced Louie – and Dad became friends after Dad dedicated the CDB’s ‘High Lonesome’ album to Louis and photorealistic artist James Bama who painted many western-themed paintings.
Dad wrote:
“To Louis L’Amour and James Bama
Here’s to gut rotting whiskey and Saturday night
And pistols and poker and hellacious fights;
Here’s to cowboys and trappers and mountains and woods
And “Slim With A Saddle” and “Rose Plenty Good”;
Here’s to hard-living men who took care of their own.
Like Chantry and Sackett, Catlow and Kilrone;
From the lowlands of Texas to high Tennessee,
What a hell of a fine place this world used to be.
My sincere appreciation for the hours of honest pleasure you’ve both given me." – Charlie Daniels 1976
Louis then dedicated his novel ‘Jubal Sackett’ to Mom and Dad.
Mom has remained friends with Louis’ widow, Kathy, since he passed away in 1988, and they both spend time near the 4 Corners in Colorado throughout the year.
Louis and Kathy had two children, Angelique, who is about a year older than me, and Beau who is a little bit older. I wrote about some of the times we all spent together in Durango, CO the first of which was when I got to hang out with Beau, Angelique and her friend Maria who many years later became the star of the longest running prime time live-action TV series of all time, "Law & Order: SVU," but you know her as Mariska Hargitay.
Beau and I have tried to stay in touch since Dad went home in 2020, and for me, he has been a shining example of shepherding the life’s work of a creative father because he does what I strive to do which is keeping Louis’ legacy alive.
I don’t remember Beau’s exact quote, but he said that his job was to bring his father’s life’s work to an end as slowly as possible, giving the mindset of a pilot carefully and methodically landing a plane from a long overseas flight.
I like that approach.
We both want our fathers recognized for their accomplishments and bodies of work many years after we’re gone, so we do our best to make that happen.
While our missions are similar, Beau’s actual course of action has been quite different.
He has had unfinished manuscripts from his Dad which he has helped finish, he’s even expanded the mediums in which to tell Louis’ stories, for instance, he was behind the publishing of a graphic novel (essentially a novel told with pictures, but a step beyond standard comic books) for ‘Law of the Desert Born.’
Beau also went to film school and has worked in the film business, and has over 30 years experience in tending to his father's legacy.
Before Dad “changed addresses” I ran social media, and was in charge of the website and website merchandise along with his music publishing, and felt pretty overwhelmed about how to proceed.
Plus, in 2020, we were in still in the middle of Covid and any out-of-the-box ideas I might have had weren’t easily implemented.
Beau has been doing this since the late 1980s and no doubt had his hands full with a multitude of potential projects to work on.
It took me a while to get my feet under me and figure out what I could do with Dad’s legacy, aside from keeping his socials going.
Since Louis' passing, Beau has pursued TV and film adaptations for Louis’ body of works.
In his lifetime, Louis had over twenty adaptations of his stories, beginning all the back to 1950’s “Hondo” and one of the most notable being ‘The Sacketts’ mini-series from 1979 starring Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott and Glenn Ford.
In recent years, I’ve consulted with Beau on some film opportunities that have presented themselves, and what to look out for, and to realize that many film options expire without anything ever being greenlit, and he was speaking from experience.
All that being said, Beau has a couple of new projects out which his is promoting in Nashville this month. First is the book, ‘Skyring Water’ a Cold War era story based on one of his father’s unfinished manuscripts which he helped complete.
The other is a film adaptation of “Flint” which was first published in 1960 starring Josh Holloway from “LOST,” Charles Esten from “Nashville” and Mike Vogel who has had many film and TV credits, but my personal favorite is his portrayal of Atheist turned Christian apologist, Lee Strobel, in “The Case for Christ.”
The film premieres at the Nashville Film Festival on Sept. 25 with another showing on Sept. 27 since the first showing sold out, and both Beau and the film’s director, Ryan Whitaker, will be appearing at Landmark Booksellers in Franklin on Sept. 28 at 6 PM.
Beau and author Ryan Pote will also be signing books at Barnes & Noble in Cool Springs on Sept. 24.
Check out the Louis L'Amour Facebook page for more info, and I’ll be posting reminders leading up to the upcoming events.
Hopefully I can write about some more of the legacy building projects we’re working on for Dad soon, but for now I wanted to write about what Beau's endeavors.
There’s one thing that I would love to complete somehow which would showcase both Dad and Louis. Sometime in the early 1980s, Dad wrote a song called “The Daybreakers.”
“The Daybreakers” was also the name of the first book in the Sacketts saga, and Dad turned that into a song which he performed live for a few years, but unfortunately never recorded.
When Dad did his ‘Night Hawk’ album of Western themed songs, I asked him why he didn’t include “The Daybreakers.” He kind of shrugged his shoulders and said, “I forgot about it.”
We have a live recording of just Dad and an electric guitar that with today’s technology we can isolate the vocal and build a full instrumental track around it someday. That would be a beautiful legacy building project for both the L’Amour and the Daniels families.
Let’s do it!
If you’re in Nashville the 24th through the 28th of Sept, check out the book signings and “Flint” at the Nashville Film Festival.
Let’s all make the day count!
Pray for our troops, our police, the Peace of Jerusalem and our nation.
God Bless America!
#SonyReleaseHonkyTonkAve
#BenghaziAintGoingAway #End22
Charlie Daniels, Jr.
As I have written about previously, Louis – Pronounced Louie – and Dad became friends after Dad dedicated the CDB’s ‘High Lonesome’ album to Louis and photorealistic artist James Bama who painted many western-themed paintings.
Dad wrote:
“To Louis L’Amour and James Bama
Here’s to gut rotting whiskey and Saturday night
And pistols and poker and hellacious fights;
Here’s to cowboys and trappers and mountains and woods
And “Slim With A Saddle” and “Rose Plenty Good”;
Here’s to hard-living men who took care of their own.
Like Chantry and Sackett, Catlow and Kilrone;
From the lowlands of Texas to high Tennessee,
What a hell of a fine place this world used to be.
My sincere appreciation for the hours of honest pleasure you’ve both given me." – Charlie Daniels 1976
Louis then dedicated his novel ‘Jubal Sackett’ to Mom and Dad.
Mom has remained friends with Louis’ widow, Kathy, since he passed away in 1988, and they both spend time near the 4 Corners in Colorado throughout the year.
Louis and Kathy had two children, Angelique, who is about a year older than me, and Beau who is a little bit older. I wrote about some of the times we all spent together in Durango, CO the first of which was when I got to hang out with Beau, Angelique and her friend Maria who many years later became the star of the longest running prime time live-action TV series of all time, "Law & Order: SVU," but you know her as Mariska Hargitay.
Beau and I have tried to stay in touch since Dad went home in 2020, and for me, he has been a shining example of shepherding the life’s work of a creative father because he does what I strive to do which is keeping Louis’ legacy alive.
I don’t remember Beau’s exact quote, but he said that his job was to bring his father’s life’s work to an end as slowly as possible, giving the mindset of a pilot carefully and methodically landing a plane from a long overseas flight.
I like that approach.
We both want our fathers recognized for their accomplishments and bodies of work many years after we’re gone, so we do our best to make that happen.
While our missions are similar, Beau’s actual course of action has been quite different.
He has had unfinished manuscripts from his Dad which he has helped finish, he’s even expanded the mediums in which to tell Louis’ stories, for instance, he was behind the publishing of a graphic novel (essentially a novel told with pictures, but a step beyond standard comic books) for ‘Law of the Desert Born.’
Beau also went to film school and has worked in the film business, and has over 30 years experience in tending to his father's legacy.
Before Dad “changed addresses” I ran social media, and was in charge of the website and website merchandise along with his music publishing, and felt pretty overwhelmed about how to proceed.
Plus, in 2020, we were in still in the middle of Covid and any out-of-the-box ideas I might have had weren’t easily implemented.
Beau has been doing this since the late 1980s and no doubt had his hands full with a multitude of potential projects to work on.
It took me a while to get my feet under me and figure out what I could do with Dad’s legacy, aside from keeping his socials going.
Since Louis' passing, Beau has pursued TV and film adaptations for Louis’ body of works.
In his lifetime, Louis had over twenty adaptations of his stories, beginning all the back to 1950’s “Hondo” and one of the most notable being ‘The Sacketts’ mini-series from 1979 starring Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott and Glenn Ford.
In recent years, I’ve consulted with Beau on some film opportunities that have presented themselves, and what to look out for, and to realize that many film options expire without anything ever being greenlit, and he was speaking from experience.
All that being said, Beau has a couple of new projects out which his is promoting in Nashville this month. First is the book, ‘Skyring Water’ a Cold War era story based on one of his father’s unfinished manuscripts which he helped complete.
The other is a film adaptation of “Flint” which was first published in 1960 starring Josh Holloway from “LOST,” Charles Esten from “Nashville” and Mike Vogel who has had many film and TV credits, but my personal favorite is his portrayal of Atheist turned Christian apologist, Lee Strobel, in “The Case for Christ.”
The film premieres at the Nashville Film Festival on Sept. 25 with another showing on Sept. 27 since the first showing sold out, and both Beau and the film’s director, Ryan Whitaker, will be appearing at Landmark Booksellers in Franklin on Sept. 28 at 6 PM.
Beau and author Ryan Pote will also be signing books at Barnes & Noble in Cool Springs on Sept. 24.
Check out the Louis L'Amour Facebook page for more info, and I’ll be posting reminders leading up to the upcoming events.
Hopefully I can write about some more of the legacy building projects we’re working on for Dad soon, but for now I wanted to write about what Beau's endeavors.
There’s one thing that I would love to complete somehow which would showcase both Dad and Louis. Sometime in the early 1980s, Dad wrote a song called “The Daybreakers.”
“The Daybreakers” was also the name of the first book in the Sacketts saga, and Dad turned that into a song which he performed live for a few years, but unfortunately never recorded.
When Dad did his ‘Night Hawk’ album of Western themed songs, I asked him why he didn’t include “The Daybreakers.” He kind of shrugged his shoulders and said, “I forgot about it.”
We have a live recording of just Dad and an electric guitar that with today’s technology we can isolate the vocal and build a full instrumental track around it someday. That would be a beautiful legacy building project for both the L’Amour and the Daniels families.
Let’s do it!
If you’re in Nashville the 24th through the 28th of Sept, check out the book signings and “Flint” at the Nashville Film Festival.
Let’s all make the day count!
Pray for our troops, our police, the Peace of Jerusalem and our nation.
God Bless America!
#SonyReleaseHonkyTonkAve
#BenghaziAintGoingAway #End22
Charlie Daniels, Jr.