While Bear Family, the famous German reissue label, had issued a 25-track collection of Billy Joe Shaver in 1994 called Honky Tonk Heroes, domestic independent Razor & Tie have released an 18-cut retrospective covering virtually all of Billy Joe Shaver's career until his re-emergence in the 1990s. The Razor & Tie set is (far) less-expensive, its notes are just as comprehensive and well-written, and despite what's not here, it may indeed be a better bargain. At the very least this serves a...   [ read more ]

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Billy Joe Shaver slipped onto the recording scene very quietly in 1973. He was already heralded a fine songwriter by Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings, but even they'd recorded one or two songs of his up to that point. After the issue of this debut album, however, the floodgates opened for Shaver with the aforementioned trio and Johnny Cash himself recording Billy Joe's songs -- a trend that continued 30 years later. Old Five and Dimers Like Me reveals a songwrit...   [ read more ]

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