Sorry, I can’t stop. Turns out Billy Joe Shaver would like his bullet back from the man he shot in the face. From the Austin Statesman. “They asked me .. ‘What are you going to do about that boy you … Continue reading
Supposedly the last thing anyone heard Billy Joe Shaver say to the man he shot in the face was “where do you want it?” And Dale Watson has a written a song to commemorate the moment.
One of the greatest songwriters of all time, Billy Joe Shaver, was recently found not guilty for shooting a man in the face in Papa Joe’s Texas Saloon south of Waco. Shaver did shoot him, of course, but argued that … Continue reading
I thought I’d posted this once upon a time, but I guess not. It’s Waylon Jennings playing “Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me” at one of Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnics, sometime in the early 1970s. The song was … Continue reading
Last night I had a hankering to listen to Metallica while I was writing for some reason. And since I didn’t have any Metallica, and I didn’t want to buy any, I went over to YouTube to play a couple … Continue reading
Nathan Rabin, who has been writing a fantastic series of articles about country music for The Onion called Nashville or Bust, has an even more fantastic than usual write-up of my favorite songwriter, Billy Joe Shaver. Including all kinds of … Continue reading
I’ve been listening to Bonnie Prince Billy’s Beware! pretty much nonstop for about a week. I probably ain’t getting most of it, but it reads to me like a playful meditation on one of the most hoary of country music … Continue reading
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