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Tramp on Your Street Reviews
| 19 of 19 people found the following review helpful  The REAL outlaw, By Dino (Scotland) - See all my reviews This review is from: Tramp on Your Street (Audio CD) It's well documented that Billy Joe Shaver wrote nine songs (including the title track) from Waylon Jennings' 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes. Shaver's songwriting is in the very top bracket - he's written some of the most memorable, hardest-hitting country songs in the history of the music. As a solo artist or as frontman for his group, he has failed to reach great heights of commercial success; partly because he doesn't fit the image required to make it big in the Billboard country chart, and also because great though his songs are, they can't all be termed radio-friendly. Let's forget the pursuit of fame (which was never a priority for Shaver anyway) and concentrate on his music: uncomromising rock-edged country blues, vocals spat out with equal parts venom and humour and the startling guitar work of Billy Joe's son Eddy, who tragically passed away in December 2000, the victim of the temptations that the life of a no-frills travelling band will provide. Tramp On Your Street was Billy... Read more 20 of 21 people found the following review helpful It don't get no better than this, This review is from: Tramp on Your Street (Audio CD) I'm working my way backward in time in discovering the rich musical legacy of father and son Billy Joe and Eddie Shaver. I started with 2000's The Earth Rolls On, another 5-star recording, but this one, from 1993, is even a little better. This kind of music carries on the authentic legacy of rock 'n roll and western swing in a way that contemporary pop and country music absolutely do not. The musical licks are sharp, the vocals full-throated (with some help from Waylon Jennings) and the words always heartfelt and often funny. Very rarely does an artist deliver six tunes in a row as powerful as Tracks 1-6 here. One of my favorites is #3, Georgia on a Fast Train ("Got a good Christian raisin' and a 8th grade education, ain't no need y'all a treatin' me this way"). Eddie's guitar licks come so fast that Billy Joe has to caution him, "Aw, slow down, Eddie" (or is it "throw down"?). I also especially like #5, If I Give My Soul, an autobiographical account in which Billy Joe wonders if... Read more 15 of 15 people found the following review helpful The Outlaw's Outlaw, By B K Fisher (Nashville, TN.) - See all my reviews This review is from: Tramp on Your Street (Audio CD) Billy Joe has been penning country gold since the 60's. He has quietly become the finest honky-tonk songwriter of our time. His latest creation, the band "Shaver" features his son Eddy on guitar. Eddy Shaver is one of the best young country pickers in the business. Listen to him "throw down" as Billy Joe urges on "Georgia On a Fast Train.' His twelve-string work on the ballad "Live Forever", backed by vocals from the Kentucky Headhunters' Doug and Ricky Lee Phelps will charm you. Billy Joe welcomes the vocals of his good friend Waylon Jennings throughout this record. "Tramp On Your Street" is always perched at the top of my CD stack. The title cut is a haunting tribute to his life as a honky-tonk hero. The lack of airplay, not to mention a Grammy nod illustrates just what is wrong with country radio, and the music industry in general. Best country record I've ever heard. |
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