Tramp On Your Street

Tramp On Your Street
Zoo/Praxis (72445-11063-2)
Produced by R.S. Field
Released August 10, 1993
13 tracks, 48 minutes 14 seconds

Tramp On Your Street came about when I was just a young boy. It was back in Corsicana, Texas. I walked...this one night I walked five miles to town and five miles back on a railroad track 'cause I wanted to see these people that were playing and picking down at the Wonder Bread Company up there in Corsicana. And it...I remember gettin', I liked to got beat half to death by my grandma when I got back because I wasn't suppose to be doing stuff like that, 'cause I was just a kid. I remember I was barefooted and had on those old overalls that ... no shirt, just one of those suspenders was working and I recalled when I got there it was the Light Crust Doughboys was playing, Homer and Jethro and they didn't have a thing out there saying Hank Williams but Hank Williams was with the group. I guess it was before he got very popular because they let me in because I was just a kid. I remember I had a hard time keeping people from stepping on my feet, being barefoot like that. There's a lot bootleggers there and stuff. Corsicana's dry. I remember seeing a lot of bootlegging and things like that, people with whisky bottles in their boot and stuff. Kids see a lot of things down on the ground like that. I got up against this post because that way I could keep people from running over me or stepping on me at that particular time Homer and Jethro was playing and then they introduced Hank Williams. They said, "There's a new guy arounf. I want you to listen to him." He got up and just sang one song. I can't remember what the song was bit it wasn't anybody paying attention to him and of course I was. And he noticed that and he looked down and he sang that ong to mebecause it wasn't anybody else paying attention. And it really touched me. I never did forget it. The...that's how Tramp On Your Street came about and I guess that's somehows what he said to me. Anyway, I'm a big Hank Williams fan.

--Billy Joe Shaver

* Special guest appearance by Waylon Jennings
** Special guest appearance by Brother Phelps
Track	Song	Writers	Time
1*	Heart Of Texas	Billy Joe Shaver	3:45
2*	Oklahoma Wind	Billy Joe Shaver	4:33
3	Georgia On A Fast Train	Billy Joe Shaver	3:13
4**	Live Forever	Billy Joe Shaver and Eddy Shaver	2:49
5**	If I Give My Soul	Billy Joe Shaver	4:18
6	Tramp On Your Street	Billy Joe Shaver	5:15
7	K.A.N.D., Corsicana, Texas	.	0:49
8	Good Ol' U.S.A.	Billy Joe Shaver	2:43
9	The Hottest Thing In Town	Billy Joe Shaver	5:15
10	When Fallen Angles Fly	Billy Joe Shaver	4:04
11	Take A Chance On Romance	Billy Joe Shaver	3:19
12	Old Chunk Of Coal	Billy Joe Shaver	2:33
13	I Want Some More followed by TennTex Tear Down	Billy Joe Shaver	7:16

Musicians:

Billy Joe Shaver: songs and singing

Eddy Shaver: lead and rhythm guitars

Keith Christopher: bass and rhythm guitar

Danny Thorpe: rhythm guitars and backing vocals

Greg Morrow: drums and percussion

Al Kooper: Hammond B3 organ; Wurlitzer and acoustic pianos

Notes:

Special Thanks: Webb wilder; KAND - D.J.; "Les" James Lester for
putting everybody together; Kay Clary; Lou Magila; Gerd Muller;
Jerry Jones Guitars; Gina Cheshire; Dan Baird; George "Tone Chaperone" Bradfute; Tameron Hedge; Kyle Lenhing; Jack (Jesse) Case; Blood Brother; Great Spirit; Brenda Joyce - for her prayers; Victory (mother); Patricia (sister);
Mildred; Dequa - more prayers.

In memory of Virgil Lee Shaver - a rough house rounder.

Technical Information:

Associate Producer & Engineer: Scott Baggett

Mixed by Scott baggett with R.S. using "Flying Fingers"

Special Guests:

Waylon Jennings: vocals
Doug and Ricky Lee Phelps: vocals
Bill Miller: Native American flute and chants
Jim Hoke: harmonica, lapsteel, clarinet and horn arrangement on Good 'Ol U.S.A.
Scott Baggett: bass guitar and Hammond B3 organ
Terry Anderson: backing vocals

A&R Men: Jack Emerson and Andy McLenon

Mastering: Benny Quinn (Masterfonics)

Coordination: Bridgett O'Lannerghty

Recorded and Mixed at the Sanctuary, Nashville, Tennessee, February 8th through March 14, 1993, Barry Sanders, owner/operator

Album Concept: Shade Tree Media

Art Direction/Design: W.R. Taylor

Photography: Richard McLaurin

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