This weekend, Steve Earle devotes an entire episode of his Hardcore Troubadour Radio show on SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country to the memory of Billy Joe Shaver, who died Wednesday at 81. Earle wrote the liner notes for Shaver’s last album, 2014’s Long in the Tooth, and he reads from those words in tribute to the Texas songwriter.
“If God ever woke up and decided that he was going to make himself a songwriter it was on the morning of August 16th, 1939,” Earle says, noting the date of Shaver’s birth...
“If God ever woke up and decided that he was going to make himself a songwriter it was on the morning of August 16th, 1939,” Earle says, noting the date of Shaver’s birth...
- 10/30/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
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