RIP - Billy Joe Shaver

[hullabelew 3,724]

This one rips my heart out.  

 

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Tramp on Your Street
Georgia on a Fast Train
Chunk of Coal
Live Forever
Honkytonk Heroes
 

The background organ on Tramp on Your Street is sooo good.

[Ten Bears 2,483]

Tramp on Your Street was the one BJS song that made me cry a lot before he died.  I could only listen once since.  It just crushed me.

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Star in my Heart is like that for me. Listened a few times today driving around today.

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wtf. I feel like I just heard this news the first time, but think maybe I found out a few days ago. the JJW thing and this fucking covid haze are wearing me fucking out man

BJS at the White Horse in ~ 2014 or 2015 (maybe earlier fuck I don't know) was balls out fun. I remember seeing that on the listing one day on the Chronicle and just saying WTF and we ran over there. it was $10 cover. almost all of the locals on regular rotation at the White Horse were there in the crowd. it was jam the fuck packed. so much fun. 

RIP

[Gil Bang 26,048]

14 hours ago, hullabelew said:

Georgia On A Fast Train
Ride Me Down Easy
Chunk of Coal
Live Forever
Honkytonk Heroes

My brother swears the greatest guitar performance he ever saw was Eddy Shaver warming up before a sound check.  Marshal Amp facing backwards into a plexiglass panel.  
All great songs but their performances on the Unshaven able.....fantastic.

some sort of redneck notion of a plexy-stack?

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On 10/30/2020 at 10:03 AM, Ten Bears said:

Tramp on Your Street

Georgia on a Fast Train

Chunk of Coal

Live Forever

Honkytonk Heroes

 

This.

Sold him the smallest trailer I've ever seen. Couldn't even lay a guitar case flat in the bottom of it.

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On 10/28/2020 at 11:00 AM, NOMAAA said:

got to see him open for Kinky at the old J&J Blues Bar here in FW.  was a kickass show.

Yes it was!  RIP to Shaver, one of outlaws best.

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On 10/31/2020 at 12:41 AM, Gil Bang said:

some sort of redneck notion of a plexy-stack?

Ha.  Double Plexy in fact.  DP, if you will.