{"id":7333,"date":"2012-09-12T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T23:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7333"},"modified":"2012-09-12T16:14:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T23:14:45","slug":"billy-joe-shaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/09\/billy-joe-shaver\/","title":{"rendered":"BILLY JOE SHAVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7334\" title=\"BILLY-JOE-SHAVER-M-Review-JulyAugust2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/BILLY-JOE-SHAVER-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/BILLY-JOE-SHAVER-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/BILLY-JOE-SHAVER-M-Review-JulyAugust2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>ILLY JOE SHAVER<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Live at Billy Bob\u2019s Texas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Smith Music Group]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This live CD\/DVD, Shaver\u2019s first release since 2007, thoroughly reaffirms his outlaw credentials. His best-known songs\u2014\u201cI\u2019ve Been to Georgia on a Fast Train,\u201d \u201cHonky Tonk Heroes\u201d and \u201cOld Five and Dimers Like Me\u201d\u2014speak convincingly of his roughneck lifestyle, while \u201cWacko From Waco,\u201d one of the two new tunes, addresses the infamous 2007 shooting incident that landed him on trial in Texas. (He was ultimately acquitted.) The song exemplifies prime Shaver\u2014an ornery cuss who\u2019s \u201cbest not to mess with.\u201d On occasion, his political incorrectness goes too far, as with the juvenile jokes on the entendre-overloaded \u201cThat\u2019s What She Said Last Night,\u201d but there\u2019s another side\u2014one softened by life\u2019s tragedies. Shaver shows this side in tenderly heartfelt tunes like \u201cStar in My Heart\u201d and \u201cI Couldn\u2019t Be Me\u00a0Without You.\u201d Both the CD and DVD\u2014which offers some additional stage banter and interview testimonials from Willie Nelson and Pat Green\u2014provide an engaging portrait of an unvarnished, uncompromising American original. \u2013Michael Berick<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILLY JOE SHAVER Live at Billy Bob\u2019s Texas [Smith Music Group] This live CD\/DVD, Shaver\u2019s first release since 2007, thoroughly reaffirms his outlaw credentials. His best-known songs\u2014\u201cI\u2019ve Been to Georgia on a Fast Train,\u201d \u201cHonky Tonk Heroes\u201d and \u201cOld Five and Dimers Like Me\u201d\u2014speak convincingly of his roughneck lifestyle, while \u201cWacko From Waco,\u201d one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4770,4538,4771,4772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7336,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}