MUSIC

The Dosey Doe Coffee House presents Billy Joe Shaver. JUBAL LEE YOUNG Opens.

“Everybody’s Brother” was Grammy nominated, easier to say who has not cut a Billie Joe Shaver song, was recently awarded the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for song writing - Americana Music Convention, yet, he still regards songwriting as just a hobby. I was not even born yet when my father tried to kill me. Hail a hero of a vanishing breed.

As a living lightning rod for the blues, Billy Joe Shaver is one rough 'n' rowdy Texan who's experienced more than enough joy and pain in his 63 years to ever have to go begging for material. Like Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, and Jimmie Rodgers, Billy Joe has lived the songs he sings—when it's about love, he's embraced it; when it's about grief, he's writhed in it; and when it's about screwing-up, well, Lord knows he's done it.

When Shaver kicks his to-the-bone tales back our way, they smack of irrefutable truth—a truth that's delivered with simple, poetic grace.