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Mike Parrish has been writing songs since childhood and thankfully they began to get better with age. Sammy Hundley and Mike grew up together in Southeast Texas but split up after high school. Mike joined the military and made a career in law enforcement while Sammy remained with the music business and succeeded greatly in the Houston area as well as a successful tour in China. When both Sammy and Mike found themselves back home in their hometown, the bumped into each other and began discussing recording and album. ``Runnin` Outa Time`` was the first track recorded, in a rented beach house in Crystal Beach Texas and later they cut 15 tunes for the album ``Texas in the Man.`` The title track for this album was written together. Mike and Sammy are planning a southeast and central Texas tour soon.
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Mike Parrish & Sammy Hundley grew up together in southeast Texas. Mike went into the military and later law enforcement while continuing to write. Sammy never left the music business. Years later the guys bumped into each other in their hometown and began recording. The album ``Texas in the Man`` is the first finished work with several more on the way.
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Summer 2006, Mike Parrish had rented a beach cabin, in Crystal Beach, Texas to spend a week long vacation away from the world of law enforcement and to get reacquainted with his family. Seven days on the sandy shores of the Gulf of Mexico was a trip the Parrish family took every year. Even though the family lived less than an hour away, nothing quite relaxed Mike as much as sitting on the deck and listening to a favorite song with the warm Summer ocean breeze on his face and a cold Corona in his hand. This year would be different because, after many years of separation, Mike was reunited with a lifelong friend and he had invited this childhood buddy to stay the week. Sammy Hundley, a professional musician, and Mike had planned to spend a couple of days laying a demo track for a song Mike had written some twenty years prior to this vacation. Oddly enough, that song was entitled ´´Runnin´ Outa Time.´´ Mike´s first love had always been music. Country music, rock, pop, blues, there simply were no boundaries because Mike could find the soul of any genre and the true message of any song. He knew that Sammy, above all, shared this same love for music and also that Sammy had carved out a living playing throughout the greater Houston area while becoming one of the most accomplished, even masterful, musicians in the region. As they sat on the deck of that Crystal Beach cabin, they laughed at recollections of blaring Kiss records while they simultaneously played ´´air guitar.´´ Mrs. Parrish´s sofa (Mike´s mom) doubled as a stage, even while only in her absence, and the boys would often leap from its cushions into the air for imaginary crowds who cheered them on. Those were indeed the days that Mike recalled with fond memories and also the days that taught him to find the music in life. While his first ambition was to record the songs that had filled his heart and mind as a teenager and young adult, life just got in the way of that plan and Mike used this same drive to become a distinguised Texas Peace Officer after serving a tour of duty in the United States Army. Through his long career as a street cop, investigator, police chief in two cities and finally an elected constable, Mike Parrish found much to write about. The personal trials of life and the tribulations of others, as seen through the eyes of a police officer, were many and, it seemed, whether these times were heartbreaking or joyous, there was always a song to be found. As the years passed, a yellowing notebook was packed from room to room and from house to house which was filled with the passion of life and living that was conveyed through the music of Mike Parrish. That yellowing notebook of songs that he´d written was still being moved from room to room and home to home but none of these songs had found their way to the ears and hearts of those for which they were written. Sammy and Mike went into a closed room at that Crystal Beach cabin and, after approximately ten hours of working (and playing) they emerged with the demo track of Mike´s song ´´Runnin´ Outa Time.´´ The next day they repeated this process and created the demo for ´´End of Forever.´´ Even while neither of them really talked about it, they both believe that this was when it was subliminally decided to record an entire album. Once the wheels began to roll it was merely perpetual motion afterward because Mike and Sammy worked day and night recording the songs that Mike wrote and chose for the album that would soon be titled, ´´Texas in the Man.´´ This music reflects the life of a man who loves his fellow man and who devoted his life to the protection of his country. In this album you´ll hear of Mike´s victories and tragedies from ´´Color Me Gone´´ to ´´Angel Fly.´´ These tunes are written in such a way that any one can relate to the trials that formed them and the fibers of life from which they were crafted. Mike is the father of five children, (Misty, Mikey, Forrest, Krsytal & Amanda) three grandchildren (Di
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