Joe Shaver keeping ‘outlaw’ legacy intact

Michael Becker
RECORD REVIEW

COUNTRY outlaw
steals the show; New
York trio shares
American roots.
Billy Joe Shaver — Tramp On
Your Street, BMG Music 1993
Ina recent interview, Waylon
Jennings, a fellow “outlaw”
country compadre, bemoaned the
fact that many leading contem-
porary country musicians bust the
bronco of success with little else
than a pretty face, a pleasing voice
and a folksy ranch-style manner.

_ Where are the songs? Where is
the hard-won wisdom, the gritty
stuff of life, he asked.

” Tramp On Your Street is a fertile
. place to start.
Waylon put the spurs to his own
career when he recorded an’
_ album loaded with mostly Shaver
"material -- Honky Tonky Heroes.
He appears as a guest on the
Texan’s second release in 10 |,
years. ;
Shaver's son Eddy is equally
.. fierce and fine on guitar. Al

_« Kooper fills out the no-frills ‘sound

_on Hammond B3 organ, Wurlitzer
and piano.

The title track chronicles a.
fateful journey Shaver once took
‘as a young lad to check out the ac-
‘tion at the Wonder Bread Com-

' pany in Corsicana, Texas.

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BILLY JOE Shaver (left) is joined bu son Eddy on gi

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Kooper on keyboards for Tramp On Your Street.

The Light Crust Doughboys
were playing. With them was an
unknown artist who shaped
Shaver's musical perspective.

Says Shaver, “Homer and
Jethro was playing and then they
introduced Hank Williams. ... He
got up and sang just one song. |
can’t remember what the song was
but it wasn’t anybody paying at-
tention to him and of course | was.
And he noticed that and he looked
down at me and he sang that song
to me because it wasn't anybody
else paying any attention. And it
really touched me. | never did
forget it.”

The legacy remains intact.
Tramp On Your Street is essential

and real,
The Holmes Brothers — Soul
Street, Rounder Records 1993

Country, rock, gospel, blues,
soul, funk, R&B — it all comes
together convincingly with a raw
exuberance on Soul Street.

New York-based Wendel!
Holmes, Sherman Holmes and
Popsy Dixon squeeze raggedy riffs
from some deep and smoky bar-
relhouse, downtown anywhere.

Gib Wharton’s pedal steel
guitar, Dobro and lap steel con-
tributions push an already solid
blues configuration into new sonic
territory.

Unafraid to venture, the Holmes

See Harmonies page 49

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