When disaster strikes, the musicians of Austin are quick to respond with a benefit concert. For the people of Haiti that were devastated by the earthquake two weeks ago, Joe Ely and over twenty of his most talented friends joined together with some 2,000 music lovers for a ten hour marathon concert at the Austin Music Hall Sunday to raise money and show support.
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“My governor is a Jewish Cowboy.”
“He ain’t Kinky, he’s my governor.”
“Why the Hell not?”
If you weren’t in the general vicinity of Austin, Texas in 2006 you probably missed these bumper stickers as well as some of Kinky Friedman’s other campaign slogans which included, “How hard can it be?” and a whole series of television ads featuring the likes of Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver and the Dixie Chicks.
While he lost the gubernatorial race and with it the opportunity to start the “dewussification of Texas” the former child-chess-player-turned-musician-turned-author is just as funny, and potentially offensive as he ever was.
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It takes a certain kind of man to shoot someone in a bar fight.
It takes a whole different type of man to fess up, surrender himself to the police, make bail and show up the next night to play an in-store show asking his fans to pray for him.
But that’s Billy Joe Shaver for you.
The 2007 event may scream the ending of a Lifetime movie even though it’s just one side of the singer, songwriter and country music renegade.
He’s been making music for over 35 years and is responsible for songs such as “Live Forever,” “Way Down Texas Way,” “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train,” “Old Chunk of Coal” and “Old Five and Dimers Like Me.”
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From the unauthorized to the autobiography, books about musicians can be amazingly good reads while others are just a waste of trees. Of course there are several reasons for this varying degree of quality.
The artist may not want to talk to the author which often leads to a book filled with lots of rehashing of common knowledge and a few anecdotes from the kid who sat next to the kid the artist babysat when they were three.
Because they know all about the artist’s innermost thoughts and secrets.
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