RIP - Jerry Jeff and Billy Joe Shavers - Heaven's Songwriter Circle Grows Larger by Two

As a learned friend summed it up this morning, "Jerry Jeff has finally got off that LA Freeway." Lover of the wisdom of old men, hard livers, bar life and great songs who sung his and those of others like no other. If you don't know his music, you are missing much. Check out "A Man Must Carry On." Four days after this posted initially, Billy Joe Shavers also crossed the river to join Jerry Jeff. Shavers wrote nine of the ten songs on one of the best 1970s albums of all time, Waylon Jennings' Honky Tonk Heroes, an album we played very, very loud over and over when it first entered our KU apartment and years since. It still makes me smile when I hear one its songs.