Old Five & Dimers Like Me (CD)

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.

• Category:  Music  »  Country  »  Outlaw Country
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• Release Date: November 19, 1996
• Label: Koch Records (USA)
• UPC: 099923793823
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106422910
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #10761 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #584 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #33 in Outlaw Country (See Top 100 Outlaw Country Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Billy Joe Shaver, Tommy Cogbill, Bobby Wood, Mike Utley, Kenny Malone, Stephen Bruton, Jerry Shook, Danny Finley, Red Lane, Tommy Jackson.

Producer: Kris Kristofferson.

Reissue producer: Barry Feldman.

Originally released on Monument (32293). Includes liner notes by Tom T. Hall.

All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.

1973 was Billy Joe Shaver's year. He exploded onto the country music scene, helping to create the "outlaw country" movement with his debut album and Waylon Jennings' contemporaneous HONKY TONK HEROES, an album full of Shaver songs. Like Guy Clark, Shaver combined simple honky-tonk motifs with thoughtful, poetic verbiage and a badass attitude. In retrospect, it's easy to see why Nashville iconoclast Kris Kristofferson was at the production helm for the gritty, groundbreaking OLD FIVE AND DIMERS.

Many of the songs here are also found on Jennings' HONKY TONK HEROES, and Shaver's unschooled voice lends them a rougher quality, but the writer's own versions are no less convincing. "Black Rose" is a then-controversial tale of interracial romance. The title tune finds Shaver looking longingly back at his youth and gently lamenting his current rough and rowdy ways. "Low Down Freedom" details the price one must pay for a life free of emotional ties. Throughout, Shaver is backed by some of the best musicians early-'70s Nashville had to offer. Along with HONKY TONK HEROES, OLD FIVE AND DIMERS stands as one of the key recordings in outlaw country.

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