Outlaw country singer songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, who wrote songs like “Honky Tonk Heroes,” “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” and “Old Five and Dimers Like Me,” has died He was 81.
His friend Connie Nelson said he died Wednesday in Texas following a stroke.
-Tennessee Budd
Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker within 5 days! Man, this is depressing. I wore out cassettes and CDs of both men.
ReplyDeleteBilly Joe singing his LIVE FOREVER is right alongside George Jones covering the Max Barnes and Troy Seals classic WHO'S GONNNA TO FILL THEIR SHOES.
ReplyDeleteWhy on earth would he follow a stroke? That just seems dangerous.
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Johnny Bush, Jerry Jeff Walker, Billy Joe Shaver all in a matter of days. Damn. If you've never heard it you should go listen to Waylon's recording of "Black Rose" that Billy wrote. It's actually about heroin addiction.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mikey.
ReplyDeleteWaylon's my favorite yet I didn't get that song until now. He did alright at the end with Jessi.
Slightly off the topic of Shaver but watch this to the end and you'll Jessi putting Waylon back in his place as only she could do.
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Song writers and singers die, but young'uns are still singing the songs. Not on that, but a recent news piece was bitching about old famous dudes referred to by last name -- Beethoven, Brahms, etc. -- but new writers were called by both names, and that is an indication racism and anti-feminism and Euro-centric ism. Country doesn't have that so-called problem: Willie, Jerry Jeff, Hank, Reba, Patsy, Lo-retta.
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