{"product_id":"live-forever-the-songwriting-legacy-of-billy-joe-shaver-hardcover","title":"Live Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCourtney S. Lennon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrian T. Atkinson\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eBobby Bare\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilly Joe Shaver wrote nine of the ten songs included on Waylon Jennings's landmark album \u003ci\u003eHonky Tonk Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e and played a dominant role in the origins and development of the Outlaw Country movement of the 1970s. He has been named by Ray Wylie Hubbard, alongside Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, as a member of the \"holy trinity\" of Texas songwriters. He has exerted a Texas-sized influence on Texas music and especially Texas singer-songwriters, and is cited as a chief inspiration by at least two generations of artists. But although his influence has been profound, Shaver has the dubious honor of becoming, according to author Courtney S. Lennon, \"country music's unsung hero.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLive Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver\u003c\/i\u003e, Lennon seeks to give Shaver the recognition his prolific output deserves. She unfolds for readers the complexity and the simplicity of the artist who wrote the songs that Brian T. Atkinson, in his foreword, calls \"peaceful and pure, complex and convoluted, mad and merciful\"--the musician who wrote \"You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ\" and \"That's What She Said Last Night,\" \"Honky Tonk Heroes,\" and \"Get Thee Behind Me Satan.\" Based on in-depth interviews with a host of notable singer-songwriters, this book reveals and celebrates the saint and the sinner, the earthy intellectual and the hard-drinking commoner, the poet and the cowboy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOURTNEY S. LENNON is the founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eTurnstyled Junkpiled\u003c\/i\u003e, an online roots music magazine, and has contributed to \u003ci\u003eNo Depression\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLone Star Music Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTexas Music Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She resides in Buffalo, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9.18 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47465675554994,"sku":"9781623499549","price":30.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/b137fdf3a39eeb54218703757fd12eca.webp?v=1779000831","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/live-forever-the-songwriting-legacy-of-billy-joe-shaver-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}