Honky tonk hero
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Austin : University of Texas Press, c2005.
Edition
1st ed
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xiv, 191 pages : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
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Fort Morgan Public Library - BIOGRAPHY | BIO Shaver, B. | On Shelf |
Limon Memorial Library - BIOGRAPHY | BIO SHA | On Shelf |
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Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, c2005.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed
Language
English
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In this...autobiography, Billy Joe Shaver looks back over a life that some might call a miracle of survival. His father abandoned the family before Billy Joe was born. Troubles in school and in the military turned him into a fighter, and a sawmill accident claimed two fingers and part of a third on his right hand. Yet his innate musical talent and the encouragement of an English teacher set him on the road to being a songwriter--and he never looked back. Shaver recounts his long struggle to break into the music business in Nashville and the success that came when Waylon Jennings recorded his songs on the 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes, which became a landmark of outlaw country music. Shaver movingly describes his own thirty-year, up-and-down career as a singer-songwriter in Nashville and Texas, his bouts with alcohol and drugs, his pleasure in touring with his son Eddy and their band Shaver during the 1990s, and the pain of losing Eddy, Brenda, and Billy Joe's mother all within the year 1999-2000.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Shaver, B. J., & Reagan, B. (2005). Honky tonk hero (1st ed). University of Texas Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shaver, Billy Joe and Brad. Reagan. 2005. Honky Tonk Hero. University of Texas Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shaver, Billy Joe and Brad. Reagan. Honky Tonk Hero University of Texas Press, 2005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Shaver, Billy Joe., and Brad Reagan. Honky Tonk Hero 1st ed, University of Texas Press, 2005.
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