Sugarhill [Country]
2007
Storyteller: Live At The Bluebird
About This Album
Simply put, somebody -- mostly likely either songwriter Billy Joe Shaver or Sugar Hill -- had this tape lying around for the better part of 15 years. Only God really knows why. It's a live gig from 1992, by Billy Joe accompanied by his late son Eddy Shaver and Keith Christopher on acoustic guitars and bass, and sometimes singing backing vocals. Unfortunately, it's edited and not the complete concert -- maybe the folks at Sugar Hill felt like Shaver's fans wouldn't lay down for a double disc, or perhaps the other tracks got flubbed one way or another (not like any fans of Billy Joe would care). But what is here is simply stunning. It's not that the show is atypical of a great Shaver performance, the point is that it is. For that reason alone, Storyteller: Live at the Bluebird belongs on the shelf. It doesn't matter if you have a boatload of BJS recordings with the same songs on them; you don't have them done like this. From "Georgia on a Fast Train" to "Wally the Wandering Gypsy and Me" to "Black Rose," "The Cowboy Who Started the Fight," and "Honky Tonk Heroes," to the truly chilling "Moonshine and Indian Blood," "Highway of Life," "Live Forever," and the heartbreaking closer "You Asked Me To," it's all gold.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,6,8,10,11,12 and 13)

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