Track Listing

1. Georgia On A Fast Train - Billy Joe Shaver
2. Randall Knife - Guy Clark
3. Ride Me Down Easy - Kelly Willis
4. Hearts-A-Bustin' - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
5. Bottom Dollar - Robert Earl Keen
6. Todd Snider "Waco Moon"
7. Joe Ely "Honky Tonk Masquerade"
8. Dale Watson "You Asked Me To"
9. Jack Ingram "Ava Adelle"
10. Cory Morrow "Live Forever"
11. Rodney Hayden "Black Rose"
12. The Geezinslaws "Bad Rock and Roll"
13. Billy Joe Shaver "You Wouldn't Know Love"
14. "Try and Try Again"
15. "Tramp on Your Street"
16. Plus a bonus video by Todd Snider: "Waco Moon"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127005 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.com
Fellow songwriters shower their love on Billy Joe Shaver throughout this concert recording from his 65th birthday bash in Austin. Whereas tribute albums typically feature a variety of performers interpreting the honoree's material, here, many of the Texas troubadours choose to play their own songs influenced by Shaver or ones the rough-hewn renegade specifically requested for the occasion. The birthday boy proves his own best interpreter, opening the album with a hard-charging rendition of "Georgia on a Fast Train" and closing with the raucous resilience of "Try and Try Again" (in which he deals with the death of his wife and his son) and the soulful transcendence of "Tramp on Your Street." The between-song patter highlights the proceedings, with the respect Shaver receives from peers such as Guy Clark and Jimmie Dale Gilmore (who brings tremulous heartbreak to Shaver's "Hearts-a-Bustin'") equaling the awe he elicits from younger troubadours such as Todd Snider and Jack Ingram. As Joe Ely suggests, no one has found "a way of combining the spiritual and the honky-tonk" quite like Billy Joe. --Don McLeese