#billy joe shaver

[joegramoe]

Kinky Friedman, John Townes Van Zandt, and Billy Joe Shaver

#john townes van zandt #townes van zandt #kinky friedman #billy joe shaver #outlaw country music #texas songwriters association #country folk #texas

[alex-cheraya]

me right before i make a decision that ends my life: when i cash in i won’t know anyway so what the hell

#billy joe shaver #norm macdonald

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Billy Joe Shaver & Waylon Jennings

#Billy Joe Shaver #Waylon Jennings #Handsome #Country Music Legend #Country Music

[thebowerypresents]

Willie Nelson Brings Outlaw Music Festival to Forest Hills Stadium

Outlaw Music Festival – Forest Hills Stadium – September 17, 2023

You don’t so much attend a Willie Nelson concert these days as you conform to its warmly understated, sometimes leisurely, sometimes-invigorating pace. Then again, he’s always seemed to have that pause-a-sec-and-listen effect: Whether 30 or 90, delivering sad-eyed, tear-in-beer weepers, tender folk, inspiring hymns or outlaw country rousers, he’s got you. Hearing him play, surrounded by his adoring band, still has that time-stopping quality, and Forest Hills Stadium was in thrall to one of American music’s true and unimpeachable legends on a rainy but warm Sunday evening. 

The Outlaw Music Festival, a going concern for a while now, is Willie’s eclectic seasonal caravan, loading up a sprawling six-hour bill with a range of artists that don’t sound quite like Nelson but are at the same time just right for a show like this, underscoring his own lineage and place in the history of many potent strains of Americana. As ever, he and his impressive band crowned the show with an hour-long set of their own, setting a brisk but not workmanlike pace through his classics (“Whiskey River,” “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” “On the Road Again,” “I Gotta Get Drunk,” “Always On My Mind,” “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die”) and those of friends and favorites, including Billie Joe Shaver’s “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train,” “Stay a Little Longer” from the Bob Willis catalog, “Move It On Over” from Hank Williams, and the immortal “Georgia on My Mind.” Willie’s sung these songs thousands of times, but each one still felt like a warm embrace, even the wistful ones, and even the ones for which he wouldn’t need to do more than go through the motions but is just too classy for that.

About the bill: There were plenty of willing conspirators and indeed, half the fun of a tour like this is the cross-pollination and spirit of collaboration that happens throughout. No less than Norah Jones — a surprise guest, unannounced — low-key sat in on keyboards for most of the Willie set. (It wasn’t even clear it was her until she took a few backing vocals and then a full verse of “I Gotta Get Drunk.”) Harmonica ace Mickey Raphael — a stalwart of Nelson’s band — joined for sections of earlier sets from Los Lobos, the String Cheese Incident and Bob Weir & Wolf Bros using a range of harmonica modes, from sawing roadhouse blues to sweet-’n’-tender folk. And as ever, Willie made his customary invite to many of the musicians, including a game and all-smiles Weir, to join in for the rootsy, hymnal “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” and several more selections, hootenanny-ing up the stage to close the night.

Weir’s Wolf Bros — one of the most interesting post–Grateful Dead bands and as oddly compelling a capture of Weir’s Weir-ness as any other group he’s been part of — got about 90 minutes to roam as the night’s coheadliner and more than made the most of it. The core trio of Weir, Don Was and Jay Lane has mushroomed on the road into a full ensemble, including Weir’s longtime swingman Jeff Chimenti on keys and ace pedal steel from Barry Sless, plus a sturdy horns-and-strings section called the Wolfpack. That bigness was well used here: “Jack Straw,” “Estimated Prophet” (neatly segued into its forever companion, “Eyes of the World,” which itself neatly segued into Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”), the Sunday-special “Samson & Delilah” and a rollicking “Turn On Your Lovelight” were Grateful Dead staples all getting jammy workouts.

Earlier came a potent set from jam-bluegrass stalwarts the String Cheese Incident, somehow now approaching their own 30th anniversary. And earlier still came the mighty Los Lobos — themselves, whoa, 50 years along! — who played a ripsnorting 45-minute frame full of cumbia and full-boogie rockers, including the beloved “Georgia Slop.” 30 years? 50 years? So much beautiful longevity here, but the bar appears to be 90 years, gang. —Chad Berndtson | @Cberndtson

Photos courtesy of Silvia Saponaro | @Silvia_Saponaro

#Barry Sless #Bill Nershi #Billy Joe Shaver #Bob Weir #Bob Weir & Wolf Bros #Bob Willis #Cesar Rosas #Chad Berndtson #Conrad Lozano #David Hidalgo #Don Was #Forest Hills #Forest Hills Stadium #Grateful Dead #Hank Williams #Jason Hann #Jay Lane #Jeff Chimenti #Keith Moseley #Kyle Hollingsworth #Louie Pérez #Marvin Gaye #Michael Kang #Michael Travis #Mickey Raphael #Norah Jones #Outlaw Music Festival #Photos #Queens #Review

[dearyallfrommatt]

"Sweet Mama”

From the album Unshaven: Shaver Live At Smith’s Olde Bar released in 1995. Shaver was famous Texas singer/songwriter Billy Joe Shaver and his guitar-slinging son Eddy joined up with bassist Keith Christopher (Georgia Satellites) and drummer Craig Wright (Steve Earle). Harp master Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson) blows some mean stuff on it, as well.

This was part of Billy Joe’s mid-’90s “comeback,” one that pretty much lasted until his death in 2020. He helped shape the Outlaw Country music, with his songwriting contributions to Waylon Jenning’s Honky Tonk Heroes of particular note.

He also recorded for a few labels in the ‘70s and ‘80s but nothing ever really went anywhere. In fact, this song was the lead-off track for his 1987 Columbia effort Salt of the Earth. That album was produced by Eddy and also featured him tearing it up on guitar. If this tickles your fancy, there’s also a Live From Austin, TX available that is killer bee.

The Allman Brothers Band cut this song as the final track to their 1975 album Win, Lose, or Draw. That was the final album of the band for a couple of years, as all sorts of issues were tearing the band apart, notably the deaths of Duane Allman and Barry Oakley (bass). It’s a pretty spotty effort and was the last to feature bassist Lamar Williams and keyboardist Chuck Leavell.

#youtube #Shaver #billy joe shaver #honky tonk heroes #Eddy Shaver #The Allman Brothers Band #Mickey Raphael #Keith Christopher #Craig Wright

[msbamamomma]

#waylon jennings #billy joe shaver

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Willie Nelson with Lucinda Williams - “Live Forever”

If you’re gonna make a Billy Joe Shaver tribute album, it’s gotta include “Live Forever” as the title cut.

And once that’s settled, it’s a must that Willie Nelson perform it.

And so it is - with an assist from Lucinda Williams on backgrounds - as the track announces the Nov. 11 arrival of Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver. Nathaniel Rateliff, Rodney Crowell, Margo Price, Amanda Shires, Allison Russell and Edie Brickell are among the other contributors.

Nelson’s “Live Forever” is sprightly: his vocals strong and confident; his guitar work wobbly, behind the country beat and confident. Williams is terrific on harmonies as two of Americana’s most-singular voices miraculously meld into one.

It’s hard to imagine a better performance will appear on the LP once released.

Grade card: Willie Nelson with Lucinda Williams - “Live Forever” - A-

8/17/22

#Youtube #willie nelson #lucinda williams #live forever #billy joe shaver #edie brickell #allison russell #birds of chicago #our native daughters #amanda shires #nathaniel rateliff #rodney crowell #margo price

[grimroninreviews]

sometimes y by yelawolf & shooter jennings review:

1. sometimes y (8/10)

2. hole in my head (6/10)

3. rock and roll baby (6/10)

4. make me a believer (7/10)

5. shoe string (7/10)

6. radio (9/10)

7. jump out the window (7/10)

8. catch you on the other side (5/10)

9. fucked up day (8/10)

10. moonshiner’s run (8/10)

ranking: B- tier

a good album from yelawolf and shooter jennings

if you like: rittz, slaughterhouse, charlie robison, krizz kaliko, billy joe shaver, ray wylie hubbard,

#yelawolf #shooter jennings #sometimes y #hole in my head #rock and roll baby #make me a believer #shoe string #radio #jump out the window #catch you on the other side #fucked up day #moonshiners run #rittz #slaughterhouse #charlie robison #krizz kaliko #billy joe shaver #ray wylie hubbard

[giannic]

#Billy Joe Shaver #old fashioned #country music #Youtube

[nerdery-and-murdery]

#saturday shenanigans #nerdery and murdery #Billy Joe Shaver

[joegramoe]

The posts say hello to one another.. John Townes Van Zandt and Billy Joe Shaver

#texas #john townes van zandt #townes van zandt #billy joe shaver #texas songwriters association #singersongwriter #country folk #outlaw county music

[alex-cheraya]

#billy joe shaver #i hate posting youtube links but i hate spotify more #Youtube

[mywifeleftme]

182: Billy Joe Shaver // Billy Joe Shaver

Billy Joe Shaver Billy Joe Shaver 1982, Columbia

Billy Joe Shaver had a reputation as your favourite songwriter’s favourite songwriter, but although he recorded over a more than 40-year span, his reputation largely rests on a small collection of songs he wrote in the early ‘70s. Waylon Jennings recorded nine of Shaver’s songs for 1973’s Honky Tonk Heroes, a collection that would energize Jennings’ career and make Shaver’s; that same year Billy Joe released his own renditions on his debut LP, Old Five and Dimers Like Me. Shaver recorded intermittently throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, but largely subsisted on royalties from other artists covering those early songs. By 1982 I guess he’d figured it’d been a long enough time that he might as well take another shot at them himself. (“Where do you want it”, he may even have said.)

Probably record label pressure had something to do with it too. Billy Joe Shaver was Shaver’s second album for Columbia, and half the songs on it can also be found on Shaver’s first two LPs. Still, as I’ve underlined a few times already, those five songs are legitimate outlaw country classics, and the five new ones match them in quality, making this arguably the most satisfying record he ever cut. “Bottom Dollar,” a dialogue between a man and his last greenback, could be a standby for any good country singer from the 1940s to the 2040s; “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” remains a rollicking jam with an hysterical chorus (“Got a good Christian raisin' and an eighth-grade education / Ain't no need in y'all a’ treatin' me this way”); “Tell Me Virginia” is the most writerly slut-shaming in the country canon; “One Moving Part” nods to the Guy Clark motif of the workshop as a metaphor for the self: “See, I learnt real young down on the farm Simplicity don't need to be greased I got it all down to one moving part And that moving part is me.”

I could go on. The songs, both old and new, have that simplicity of craftsmanship that gets connoisseurs going (both Bob Dylan and Norm McDonald were big fans), and if your kink is stuff that works, Shaver’ll be one of your guys. Whether you prefer this one or Old Five and Dimers may come down to whether you like Dimers’ back porch vibe or the self-titled’s hellraising (and slightly polished) swagger, but if this ends up the only Billy Joe in your collection, it won’t disappoint.

(As an aside, Discogs is a very silly place. This record was only issued twice on physical media in a US and a Canadian pressing, both 1982. The albums are identical, but the US version is currently being listed at $75 USD and up, while the Canadian goes for about $15. Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.)

182/365

#billy joe shaver #outlaw country #'80s music #'80s country #waylon jennings #honky tonk heroes #old five and dimers like me #music review #vinyl record #classic country #country

[musiconspotify]

Live Forever

A Tribute (2022) … To Billy Joe Shaver ...

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#spotify #live forever #tribute #billy joe shaver #musiconspotify

[dearyallfrommatt]

“Jesus Is the Only One That Loves Us”

From 1971, co-written with Billy Joe Shaver.

#youtube #Bobby Bare #Billy Joe Shaver

[radiomax]

Thursday 11/17/22 11pm ET: Feature LP: Various - Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver (2022)

Thursday 11/17/22 11pm ET: Feature LP: Various – Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver (2022)

Billy Joe Shaver was considered one of the last real deal artists in country music. When he stared down Waylon Jennings at Tompall Glaser’s Hillbilly Central in Nashville and told him he’d kick his ass “in front of God and everybody” if he didn’t listen to his songs, it resulted in the 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes, which sparked off the Outlaw movement in earnest. Live Forever: A Tribute to…

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