Texas Troubadours
Texas Troubadours
My vote is cast for Billy Joe Shaver. He started out as a staff writer for Bobby Bare's publishing company, wrote nine of the ten songs on Waylon Jennings' Honky Tonk Heroes masterpiece, released several fine albums of self-penned material and then got REALLY interesting in the 1990's when he paired up with his guitar whiz son, the late Eddy Shaver and formed the band Shaver. Tramp On Your Street, Highway of Life, Electric Shaver, Victory, the live album Unshaven and especially The Earth Rolls On are powerhouse records filled to the brim with great songs and vicious, vicious rock arrangements courtesy of Eddy. Billy Joe Shaver's return to solo recording, Freedom's Child, was released last year on the excellent New West label and is probably the best thing the man has ever done.
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Van Zandt ´s got my vote!
...the promise of indulgence in my confidential voice approached inmortal danger but you´ll never know how close....
BWAP wrote- But what about Lefty Frizzell, T-Bone Walker, Bob Wills, Hank Thompson, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Ernest Tubb, Doug Sahm or Joe Ely ?
Lefty, Bob Wills and Buddy Holly were accidental omissions on my part, but I can't seem to correct the mistake on the poll. Consider them de facto poll nominees, though. As for the others, I think they are all splendid but I would like to keep the list from getting bloated.
Has anyone else on the board listened to Terry Allen's masterpiece, Lubbuck (On Everything) ?
Lefty, Bob Wills and Buddy Holly were accidental omissions on my part, but I can't seem to correct the mistake on the poll. Consider them de facto poll nominees, though. As for the others, I think they are all splendid but I would like to keep the list from getting bloated.
Has anyone else on the board listened to Terry Allen's masterpiece, Lubbuck (On Everything) ?
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Oh, come on El Vez... you basically listed off a bunch of rednecks. Where are T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, King Curtis, or Ornette Coleman? Granted, they may not be troubadors, but come on hereEl Vez wrote:...must....control.....fist....of....doom!BlueChair wrote:Willie Nelson, becuase aside from Townes Van Zandt and Willie Nelson, I don't really care about many of those people on your list
What about Buddy Holly or Janis Joplin or Roy Orbison?
What about Doug Sahm or Joe Tex or Joe Ely?
Not to sound ignorant and obnoxious, but I don't know who Terry Allen
Butch Hancock, Guy Clark, or Robert Earl Keen are, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. They don't seem to be nearly as prolific as Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, or Willie Nelson.
Yes, I am an asshole.
*quickly donning air-raid style helmet after red neck comment*
I must say I hadn't heard of a bunch of those either, but it's cause EV's tastes run to stuff that's not in the same genre as where we tend to place Elvis, who brought us all together here (I don't think any of us would actually place EC in a genre per se, but you get my meaning).
This is why I haven't asked the same about New Jersey artists (Springsteen vs. Waits, for starters, then throw in Frank Sinatra and a dash of Blondie and you're got yourself a mean cocktail)!!
Question: where's that fist of doom thing from??? It's killin me...
And is Iris Dement from Texas?? I love her.
I must say I hadn't heard of a bunch of those either, but it's cause EV's tastes run to stuff that's not in the same genre as where we tend to place Elvis, who brought us all together here (I don't think any of us would actually place EC in a genre per se, but you get my meaning).
This is why I haven't asked the same about New Jersey artists (Springsteen vs. Waits, for starters, then throw in Frank Sinatra and a dash of Blondie and you're got yourself a mean cocktail)!!
Question: where's that fist of doom thing from??? It's killin me...
And is Iris Dement from Texas?? I love her.
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I believe the "fist of doom" is from the Dilbert Comic Strip...the token office female, Alice, is constantly using that line when trying to keep herself from physically assaulting her co-workers...
And, usually she has good reason to want them hurt.
IMHO.
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/t ... html#alice
I believe the "fist of doom" is from the Dilbert Comic Strip...the token office female, Alice, is constantly using that line when trying to keep herself from physically assaulting her co-workers...
And, usually she has good reason to want them hurt.
IMHO.
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/t ... html#alice
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Sulky, THANK YOU that was buggin' me! Gotta love Alice!
My fave of 'hers': the one where she's going off caffeine, and someone asks her how it's going. She produces a vaguely recognizable blob at arm's length and says "THIS IS THE AORTA OF THE LAST PERSON WHO ASKED ME THAT."
Don't lose heart Elv. Not your fault Texas has bred so much genius.
My fave of 'hers': the one where she's going off caffeine, and someone asks her how it's going. She produces a vaguely recognizable blob at arm's length and says "THIS IS THE AORTA OF THE LAST PERSON WHO ASKED ME THAT."
Don't lose heart Elv. Not your fault Texas has bred so much genius.
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