Going Down to the River

Doug Seegers left New York for Nashville in search of every songwriter's dream. But when he didn't find success as quickly or easily as he had hoped, he fell into a state of loneliness that fed an addiction he had battled since adolescence. Soon, he was homeless, playing his guitar on the street with a cardboard sign asking for money. But when he cried out in repentance and need, his prayer was answered in ways he never could have imagined.

As Doug found sobriety and began to turn his life around, he had a chance encounter with a Swedish musician and documentarian outside a food pantry in Nashville. The Swedish film crew recorded Doug singing and put his story on the air in Stockholm. Within days of the documentary airing—while he lived in a one-room apartment and acquired most of his belongings from nearby dumpsters—Doug had the number-one selling song in Sweden and was on his way to becoming an international sensation.

Going Down to the River is an inspirational story of faith, forgiveness, and the power of prayer and belief. It is also the never-give-up tale of a man who played music for fifty-five years without success only to become a chart-topping artist at the age of sixty-three.