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Honky Tonk Heroes (Import) (CD)

By: Billy Joe Shaver (Artist)

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Billy Joe Shaver Artist Snapshot:

Billy Joe Shaver made his mark in the 1970s as a key figure in the country outlaw movement, penning poetic but unpretentious honky-tonk tunes for Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and others. His career stumbled in the 1980s, but with his guitar-playing son Eddie, he made a comeback in the 1990s under the group name Shaver. Unfortunately, Eddie passed away on New Year's Eve of 2000, leaving Billy Joe to continue his journey alone.

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DISC 1 for Honky Tonk Heroes (Import) (CD) Album By Billy Joe Shaver (Artist)
1   Texas Uphere Tennessee  
2   Good Lord Knows I Tried, The  
3   Ride Me Down Easy  
4   When I Get My Wings  
5   Ain't No God In Mexico  
6   Love You Till The Cows Come Home  
7   Woman Is The Wonder Of The World  
8   When The Word Was Thunderbird  
9   America You Are My Woman  
10   Restless Wind, A  
11   Evergreen  
12   Billy B. Damned  
13   We Stayed Too Long At The Fair  
14   Honky Tonk Heroes  
15   I'm Going Crazy In 3/4 Time  
16   Gypsy Boy  
17   Chicken On The Ground  
18   Everything, Everywhere's  
19   Slow Rollin' Low  
20   Silver Wings Of Time  
21   Believer, The  
22   You Ask Me To  
23   Lately I've Been Leaning Towards The Blues  
24   I Couldn't Be Me Without You  
25   Music City U. S. A.  
 

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Title Note

Personnel: Billy Joe Shaver (vocals); Tommy Tolton (acoustic & electric guitars, slide guitar); Ron Cornelius (acoustic & electric guitars); Willie Nelson (gut string guitar, background vocals); Randy Scruggs (acoustic guitar); Richard Betts (guitar, slide guitar); James Burton (guitar, dobro); Ben Keith (pedal steel guitar, dobro); Ricky Scaggs (mandolin, fiddle, viola); Charlie Daniels (fiddle, background vocals); Mickey Raphael (harmonica); Chuck Leavell (piano); Norbet Putnam (bass); Karl Himmel (drums); Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Nicolette Larsen, Bonnie Bramlett (background vocals).

Producers: Bob Johnston, Brian Ahern, Bobby Bare, Willie Neslon.

Compilation producer: Richard Weize.

Recorded between 1976 & 1985. Includes liner notes by Jimmy Guterman.

An outlaw country super-session of sorts, HONKY TONK HEROES began when Billy Joe Shaver and his guitar-hero son Eddie started working on a new album at Willie Nelson's studio. Nelson showed up and started singing, as did (eventually) Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings, and at this point they began remaking some of Shaver's best-known songs. The resulting tracks have a much harder rock edge than you might expect, courtesy of Eddie, an incredible slide player (his solos at the end of "Tramp on Your Street" are hair-raising) who can also sound like everybody from Keith Richards to Richard Thompson. Even better, his elders--particularly Nelson, who's never sung better--seem to be having fun in the new context. An unassuming but deeply satisfying album.

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