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NOTE: I DO COMBINE SHIPPING SO IF YOU WIN AN ITEM AND ARE BIDDING ON ANOTHER, LET ME KNOW AND I CAN WAIT UNTIL THAT AUCTION RUNS IT COURSE.THANKS ARTIST: BILLY JOE SHAVER TITLE: “SALT OF THE EARTH” TRACK LISTING: SEE PHOTOS/BELOW: Sweet Mama 3:21 Hardworkin' Man 2:46 Manual Labor 2:45 Hill Country Love Song 2:58 You Can't Beat Jesus Christ 3:03 The Devil Made Me Do It The First Time 2:12 Fun While It Lasted 3:39 Whiteman's Watermelon 3:31 Street Walkin' Woman 3:14 Good News Blues 2:56 LABEL: SONY/LUCKY DOG RECORDS CAT.#: CK 61494 YEAR: 2000 (REISSUE OF 1987 ALBUM) CONDITION: THE DISC IS IN NM- CONDITION,LOOKS UNPLAYED, THIS COMES WITH A 4 PAGE FRONT INSERT WITH TRACK LISTING, AND THUMBNAIL PIX OF OTHER LUCKY DOG RELEASES IN NM- CONDITION. THE BACK TRAY INSERT IS IN NM CONDITION. HOLE IN THE BAR CODE DONE BY THE RECORD COMPANY. (SEE PHOTOS) MORE INFO: FROM THE MUSIC LIBRARY OF A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK. THIS CD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. ARTIST INFO:BILLY JOE SHAVER BIO- 16 September 1941, Corsicana, Texas, USA. Shaver was raised in Waco, Texas, and lost two fingers in a sawmill accident. In typically contradictory fashion, he took up bronc-busting as a safer job and started to learn guitar. An early song, ‘Two Bits Worth Of Nothing’, was written about his wife - a woman he has both married and divorced three times! Shaver spent some years in Nashville before Bobby Bare discovered him. He and Bare co-wrote his first single, ‘Chicken On The Ground’, for Mercury Records in 1970. Bare hit the US country charts with the simple, gutsy philosophy of ‘Ride Me Down Easy’ in 1973. Johnny Rodriguez did well with ‘I Couldn’t Be Me Without You’, while Tom T. Hall favoured ‘Old Five And Dimers’ and a song about Willie Nelson, ‘Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me’. Waylon Jennings’ important Honky Tonk Heroes contained nine Shaver songs, including their co-written ‘You Ask Me To’, which was subsequently recorded by Elvis Presley. Shaver’s first album, produced by Kris Kristofferson, contained his gruff-voiced versions of many excellent songs including his first country hit, ‘I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train’. His Texan influences (blues, jazz, Mexican) and his themes (life on the road, brief encounters, how it used to be) fitted in with outlaw country music. His best song, ‘Black Rose’, tells of his love for a black girl and contains the dubious line, ‘The Devil made me do it the first time, The second time I done it on my own.’ Shaver hated live performances and he fell prey to ulcers, alcoholism and drug-addiction, so much so that an album for MGM Records was never made. Other songwriters wrote about him, including Kris Kristofferson’s ‘The Fighter’ and Tom T. Hall’s ‘Joe, Don’t Let The Music Kill You’. In 1976, Shaver released his second album and followed it with a glittering line-up (Willie Nelson, Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris) for ‘Gypsy Boy’. He turned to religion and ‘I’m Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be A Diamond Someday)’ was recorded by both Johnny Cash and John Anderson. Perhaps there were too many outlaw singers and Shaver, with his lack of product, was overlooked. His output up to 1990 of six studio albums in 17 years, with several songs repeated, was astonishingly low, particularly for a country singer. He enjoyed a creative renaissance in the 90s with Shaver, a duo he formed with his guitar-playing son Eddy. On New Year’s Eve 2000, shortly after father and son had completed recording their sixth album together, Eddy was found dead in an Austin, Texas hotel room of a suspected heroin overdose. Billy Joe’s first album following that tragedy was released in 2002, and Freedom’s Child proved to be a powerful and revealing collection. Shaver was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004. He passed away on October 28,2020 from a stroke at age 81. 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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Billy Joe Shaver
CD Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Record Label: LUCKY DOG
Release Title: Salt of the Earth
Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard
Color: Blue
Case Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Inlay Condition: Excellent (EX)
Catalog Number: CK 61494
Edition: Reissue
Type: Album
Format: CD
Producer: Billy Joe Shaver, Eddy Shaver
Release Year: 2000
Language: English
Era: 1980s
Style: 1980s, Outlaw Country, Roots Rock, Singer-Songwriter, AMERICANA
Features: Original Cover, Original Inner Sleeve, FROM THE MUSIC LIBRARY OF A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK
Genre: Country, Outlaw Country
Run Time: SEE ITEM DESCRIPTION
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 1