Michael Corcoran’s Texas Top 50 Rounding up the greatest Lone Star State recordings of all time
By Michael Corcoran The ranking of Texas songs is not a new idea. I think the first person who took on the task held back …
Posts tagged Eddy Shaver
Q&A: Billy Joe Shaver “Long in the tooth” but strong as ever, the unstoppable and seemingly indestructible old chunk of coal talks love, loss, and faith.
By Holly Gleason (LSM July/Aug 2014/vol 7 – issue 4) Legend has always cloaked Billy Joe Shaver: As an 8-year-old living with his grandmother, singing …
LSM Cover Story: Reckless Kelly Every Step of the Way
From the Idaho mountains to the Live Music Capital of the World, from scrappy new-kids-in-town to seasoned elder statesmen of the Texas music scene, and …
Mr. Record Man: Cosmic Cowboys & the Austin Sound of the ’70s
By Eric Hisaw (LSM Sept/Oct 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 5) Something was happening in Austin and it was time the rest of the country took …
Mr. Record Man: Johnny Cash (The Columbia Years)
By Eric Hisaw (LSM Jan/Feb 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 1) Johnny Cash came roaring out of an Arkansas cotton patch, a Jesus-conflicted, lanky black-haired rebel, …
Mr. Record Man: Billy Joe Shaver
By Eric Hisaw (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) By 1993 Billy Joe and Eddy Shaver were both music business veterans. Billy Joe had …
Q&A: Billy Joe Shaver
By Gregory Barr January 2007 For some listeners, the release of Billy Joe Shaver – Greatest Hits on Compadre Records (Shaver’s first greatest hits compilation) …
Q&A: Todd Snider
By Richard Skanse July 2004 At 37, Todd Snider isn’t quite yet the “old timer” he professes to be in “Age Like Wine,” the opening …
Q&A: Billy Joe Shaver The resilient honky tonk hero talks about "Freedom's Child" and how he manages to carry on, "Day by Day," in a world that keeps on taking away the ones he loves the most.
By Richard Skanse November 2002 You wouldn’t wish the last couple of years of Billy Joe Shaver’s life on your worst enemy. By now, his …
