Hear Willie Nelson and Billy Joe Shaver’s ‘Outlaw’ Duet – Premiere

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“It’s Hard to Be an Outlaw,” from Shaver’s first studio album in seven years, takes a jab at modern country

 

Rolling Stone Music

Willie Nelson and Billy Joe Shaver

If there are two men qualified to weigh in on what it means to be a country outlaw, they’re Billy Joe Shaver and Willie Nelson.

Shaver hopes the release of Long in the Tooth will remind listeners that great art is still being made by veterans long since struck from radio playlists.

“It’s just stupidity,” he says of the lack of attention paid to older artists. “It’s like walking down a hall and seeing a Picasso and saying, ‘Damn, that thing’s old! Let’s throw it out.’ Fortunately, you can’t burn songs. You can burn pictures, but a song will live forever.” 

Some super stars nowadays, gets too far off the ground
Singing about the backroads, they never have been down
They go and call it country, but that ain’t the way it sounds
It’s enough to make a renegade want to terrorize the town
 

 


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  1. It’s hard to do ANYTHING of quality in America, anymore. Painting, dancing, designing things, making things, writing about anything that matters, you name it. The bastards are trying to destroy us, because in their demonic “minds” it makes them look better, superior, etc.

    Unfortunately, the demons have just about succeeded in silencing us in the mainstream outlets. But in reality, they’ve exposed themselves. We/ve had en enough. It won’t be long before they FINALLY learn the meaning of the word “holocaust.”

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