Honky Tonk Heroes
CD FreeFalls Fee-7008-2
Track List
- Honky Tonk Heroes
- Willie The Wandering Gypsy
- I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal
- Ain't No God In Mexico
- You Asked Me To
- Oklahoma Wind ( 1980 House Of Cash ) Admiss.
by Bug Music
- I Couldn't Be Me Without You
- Tramp On Your Street
- Easy Come Easy Go
- (AkA Ride Me Down Easy
- We Are The Cowboys
Honky Tonk
Heroes
For an album of legendary
talent including Billy Joe Shaver, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris
Kirstofferson the production of this album was anything but typical. The
project has been years in the making.
I was working
in Willie Nelson’s recording studio. Pedernales, back in 1989 when Billy
Joe Shaver came in with his son Eddie Shaver to record a new album, Eddie
not only co-produces this release, he is a virtuoso guitar player and
played most of the guitars on the album. The two spent weeks with me in
the studio. One weekend, Willie came in to Pedernales. The next thing we
knew, Willie was singing and playing on the album
Sometime went by when Waylon
Jennings came to visit us in the studio. During that visit Willie asked
Waylon to sing on the Shaver project. Waylon’s performances were
fantastic! Then when
Kristofferson came for a visit to Austin, he too wanted to sing on of his
favorite Shaver songs. If you tried to orchestrate the four of them to
record it never would have come together, but this project had a life of
it’s own and just kept developing.
As the expression goes
sometimes great things are worth waiting for nearly a decade went by, and
in 1998 Willie and I decided it was time to dust off the tracks and
finally mix them. The mix was completed and Willie and I proceeded to find
a way to get this project released. FreeFalls Entertainment. The driving
force behind the success of Willie Nelson’s first all instrumental
project, the critically acclaimed night and day, became the home for
“Honky Tonk Heroes” Old Chuck Of Coal” and Oklahoma Wind
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