This video went viral with 1.4 million views in less than a week. David Holt is a four-time Grammy winner who plays traditional mountain music and tells old Southern folk tales. You may have seen him in “David Holt’s State of Music,” which is produced by the Will and Deni McIntyre Foundation.

This song is an original by him. It’s a tribute to the old-time drovers of the early 1800s who worked the Old Charleston Road, driving livestock from Tennessee and North Carolina to Charleston.

If you’ve ever wondered where the cowboy traditions of the Old West originated, look no further. They started in the South. Herding culture, adopted from Celtic ancestors, gave rise to the Southern ethos of individual honor, a love of the land, and a warrior’s instinct to defend both.