Live forever : the songwriting legacy of Billy Joe Shaver / Courtney S. Lennon.
Material type: TextSeries: John and Robin Dickson series in Texas musicPublisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2022]Copyright date: �2022Description: 1 online resource (xx, 211 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781623499556
- 1623499550
- Shaver, Billy Joe
- Shaver, Billy Joe
- Country musicians -- Texas -- Biography
- Lyricists -- Texas -- Biography
- Paroliers -- Texas -- Biographies
- Musiciens country -- Texas -- Biographies
- MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician
- MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass
- Lyricists
- Country musicians
- Texas
- 782.421642092 B 23
- ML420.S534 L46 2022
Includes bibliographical references, index and discography.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Hard to Be an Outlaw -- Rodney Crowell -- Bobby Bare Jr -- Harold F. Eggers Jr -- Billy Don Burns -- Ray Wylie Hubbard -- Lee Roy Parnell -- Steve Earle -- Honky Tonk Heroes -- Jessi Colter -- Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel) -- Kinky Friedman -- Whey Jennings -- Ted Russell Kamp -- Mark Chesnutt -- James Carothers -- I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train -- J. P. Harris -- Matt Minglewood -- Vincent Neil Emerson -- Robert Ellis -- Mando Saenz -- Cecil Allen Moore
Everybody's Brother -- John Carter Cash -- Marty Stuart -- James McMurtry -- Kimmie Rhodes -- Richie Allbright -- Terri Hendrix -- Chuck Mead (BR549) -- Tramp on Your Street -- Jesse Dayton -- Keith Christopher -- David Waddell -- Rosie Flores -- Brian Molnar -- Radney Foster -- Bruce Robison -- Jeremy Lynn Woodall -- Adam Carter -- Brian Whelan -- Jason McKenzie -- Wacko from Waco -- Dale Watson -- Nick Gaitan -- Brian Wright -- Wayne Hancock -- Tim Easton -- Get Thee behind Me, Satan -- Michael Ubaldini -- Aaron Watson -- Jason Charles Miller -- Brennen Leigh -- Bonnie Montgomery
Salt of the Earth -- Roger Alan Wade -- Jonathan Tyler -- Jackson Taylor (Jackson Taylor and the Sinners) -- Stoney LaRue -- Matt Harlan -- Scott H. Biram -- Gethen Jenkins -- Ben Reddell -- Chris Fullerton -- Live Forever -- John Rich (Big & Rich) -- Cory Morrow -- Jim Dalton (The Railbenders) -- Ann Duggan -- Rod Picott -- Randy Rogers -- Carson McHome -- Dallas Moore -- Jim Lauderdale -- Elizabeth Cook -- David Lee -- Afterword -- Notes -- Selected Discography -- Index
"Billy Joe Shaver wrote nine of the ten songs included on Waylon Jennings's landmark album Honky Tonk Heroes and played a dominant role in the origins and development of the Outlaw Country movement of the 1970s. He has been named by Ray Wylie Hubbard, alongside Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, as a member of the "holy trinity" of Texas songwriters. He has exerted a Texas-sized influence on Texas music and especially Texas singer-songwriters, and is cited as a chief inspiration by at least two generations of artists. But although his influence has been profound, Shaver has the dubious honor of becoming, according to author Courtney S. Lennon, "country music's unsung hero." In Live Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver, Lennon seeks to give Shaver the recognition his prolific output deserves. She unfolds for readers the complexity and the simplicity of the artist who wrote the songs that Brian T. Atkinson, in his foreword, calls "peaceful and pure, complex and convoluted, mad and merciful"-the musician who wrote "You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ" and "That's What She Said Last Night," "Honky Tonk Heroes," and "Get Thee Behind Me Satan." Based on in-depth interviews with a host of notable singer-songwriters, this book reveals and celebrates the saint and the sinner, the earthy intellectual and the hard-drinking commoner, the poet and the cowboy"-- Provided by publisher.
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