Track Listing

1. Thunderbird
2. Try And Try Again
3. Leanin' Toward The Blues
4. New York City
5. You Wouldn't Know Love (If You Fell In It)
6. Slave At The Feet Of The Queen
7. People And Their Problems
8. Manual Labor
9. I'll Be Here
10. Heart And Heart
11. Way Down Texas Way
12. She Can Dance

Product Details

• Released on: 1999-05-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

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At first glance the laconic, laid-back country songwriter Billy Joe Shaver and his guitar-slingin', supercharged blues-rocker son Eddy would seem to make an unlikely musical duo. But, like on 1996's high-powered Tramp on Your Street and 1998's acoustic and introspective Victory, the Shavers once again manage to meld their seemingly antithetical musical personalities in a manner that's raw, powerful, and utterly moving. Billy Joe, who wrote or cowrote 11 of the 12 cuts on Electric Shaver, is a sort of footloose, back-street Texas poet-pilgrim whose greatest original songs infuse the stark imagery of sun-baked losers and outlaws with homespun earnestness and spiritual yearning. While at times the elder Shaver tended to be an indifferent, occasionally off-key singer, Eddy has proved the perfect antidote to his dad's occasional vocal lethargy. On tunes such as the supercharged gospel shout "Try and Try Again," the Tex-Mex working-man's lament "Manual Labor," and even a somber spiritual ode called "Slave at the Feet of the Queen," Eddy's searing electric lead work gooses Billy Joe's vocals to new levels of expressiveness. --Bob Allen