MJPTFTTB: Billy Joe Shaver 02

Mike Judge Presents: Tales From the Tour Bus
Season 1, Episode 5
Billy Joe Shaver, 2 of 6
Aired on Cinemax: 2017.10.20
By all accounts, Billy Joe Shaver should never have made it in country music. A poor Texas kid from a broken family, he lost three fingers in a sawmill accident before ever writing a song. Despite his physical challenge, Shaver landed in Nashville as a singer/songwriter with hard luck songs about real life. A chance meeting with Waylon Jennings in the back of a peanut trailer led to the breakthrough 'Outlaw' album Honky Tonk Heroes, featuring Waylon singing songs written by Billy Joe. A decade later, Shaver made a name for himself after shooting a man at a roadside tavern for allegedly talking to his soon-to-be ex-wife. The gun play led to a celebrity trial and a shocking verdict. And, of course, Billy Joe wrote a song about it.
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[@chromengoldsupra]

Now that's classic, hell of a memory on that feller

[@Gentry09]

I climbed that pole just as they introduced Hank Williams, he sang right to me.. I swear the tears came! I never heard something so beautiful in my life, to be able to seen Hank Williams would be once in a lifetime, billy Joe is my new favorite guy ever!! My god I love these stories, thank you so very much my friend..

[@reece8224]

… “and that’s where I got these fingers cut off”

[@jamesdrogers]

Curious if that's an AC15 that he's playing bass through.. It's actually a great combination

[@Sawdust5764]

Jerry Garica lost a finger chopping wood and Toni Ioni lost that same finger in a factory

[@WestlehSeyweld]

Texas was still segregated at the time, the nurse could not have been black.

[@andiiiiiiiiii]

"can i has them fingers" sounds a lot more like aave than how a white texan girl would talk though to be fair