 | Live ForeverWillie Nelson & Lucinda Williams |
Writer(s): Billy Joe Shaver, Eddy Shaver (see lyrics here) Released: November 11, 2022 (album cut) First Charted: -- Peak: 1 DF (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 2.39 video, -- streaming |
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About the Song:Billie Joe Shaver was an outlaw country music singer/songwriter born on 8/16/1939 in Corsicana, Texas. He died in 2020. During his career, he released 17 studio albums and 20 singles. He only had two minor chart entries on the country charts – “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” (#88, 1973) and “You Asked Me To” (#80, 1978) but had songs recorded by Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Elvis Presley. His “songs were stories of his life; they were real, and they were raw.” AZ Johnny Cash called Shaver his favorite songwriter. GW In 1993, he released the album Tramp on Your Street, featuring the song “Live Forever” which he co-wrote with his son Eddy. Two years later, the Highwaymen covered the song on their third album The Road Goes on Forever. The country supergroup featured Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson. Actor Robert Duvall sang a snipet of the song in the 2009 movie Crazy Heart, which starred Jeff Bridges in his Oscar-winning turn as a faded country music singer. It was also featured on the soundtrack. In 2022, the album Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver was released. It featured Edie Brickell, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Jason Isbell, Miranda Lambert, Nathaniel Rateliff, George Strait, and others. Willie Nelson and Lucinda Williams covered “Live Forever,” which kicked off the album. The song puts forth the notion that one will live forever through the memories of loved ones: “When this old world is blown asunder / And all the stars from fall the sky / Remember someone really loves you / We’ll live forever, you and I.” However, there’s also a message about the impact a songwriter can specifically leave: “I will always be around / Just like the songs I leave behind me / I’m gonna live forever now.” Hearing those words written by a songwriter who’d died just two years earlier being sung by a country legend closing in on his 90th birthday gives the song even more poetic resonance. The performance won Nelson a Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance. Nelson said, “Billy Joe Shaver is definitely the best writer in Texas. He was just real; there wasn’t one phony drop of blood in him.” GW Resources:
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