After returning from Vietnam unscathed Byrnes moved to Canada to resume his acting career. An automobile accident one night that took both his legs derailed Byrnes acting for a time and it was then that Byrnes took to his music seriously. "That River" is the third album from this Juno Award, Leo, Genie, Maple blues, Canadian Folk Music Awards winner and member of the British Columbia Entertainment Hall of Fame members.

This eleven track album of original and cover tunes shows that you can take the boy out of St. Louis but you can't take the St. Louis blues out of the boy. Among the tracks on the album in a jumping rockabilly song to get things started and a haunting rendition of the Duke Ellington piece "I Got it Bad".