Musician Tim Hall said he grew up with Madison Bumgarner's dad, and coached MadBum when he was a little boy. Watching his buddy's boy turn into a superstar with the San Francisco Giants has been a unique pleasure to Hall, who was inspired to write a country song about Bumgarner called Outlaw Southpaw. It's performed with a nod to Fire on the Mountain by the Marshall Tucker Band, which Bumgarner has used for his intro music.
Here's a sample of the lyrics:
He's an Outlaw Southpaw, manchild who's paid his dues
From the east coast to the west, he said, "I didn't come this far to lose"
Without spoiling too much before you hear it, let's just say the song hits all of the right country music notes -- literally and figuratively.
Hall also uploaded a video to YouTube that fans of the Giants and Bumgarner are bound to enjoy. It includes game footage of Bumgarner -- pitching in the World Series, hitting a home run, bumping Kolten Wong out of the way and, amusingly, of some Bumgarner's arguments with players such as Yasiel Puig. There's also grainy action of him pitching in high school, and of Bumgarner chopping down a tree in a TV commercial.
The entire presentation is pretty amazing:
It's been said that Bumgarner's life has been a country song. He grew up in a log cabin in a North Carolina forest, basically. He's got a farm with tractors and livestock. He really does chop down trees. He once dated a girl who had the same name -- Madison Bumgarner.
The world was just waiting for someone to actually produce a country song about Bumgarner. This one by Tim Hall might not even be the first, but it must be the best so far.
