THE SHAVER SHOOTING

I just now learned about the Billy Joe Shaver shooting.

According to Billy's lawyer, he shot a guy in the check outside a joint called Papa Joe's Texas Saloon on Interstate 35, 89 miles north of Austin. The lawyer says it was self defense.

He was jailed only briefly, then did a free show at Waterloo Records Tuesday night.

Here's the initial story by Michael Corcoran in the Austin Statesman HERE, plus a follow up HERE. And HERE is the affidavit for arrest warrant.

Oh lord, Billy!

DOWN TIME FOR LEGISLATURE BLOG

Some of you have noticed that there's one less pretty picture of me on this page. Because the session and the special session are officially over, I've taken down the cool link/ad on this site.

I'll keep the link with the list of other personal links on the right-side column in case anyone needs to check anything from the 2007 sessions, but I won't be actively blogging there until the next session (or, Lord help us, special session.)

That means that this site will once again be my place for stray political posts in addition ot my weekly Roundhouse Roundup column.

A LITTLE VICTORY IN THE DIGITAL MUSIC WARS

One of the major music corporations has decided to quit putting copy protection code in digital music it sells.

from All About Jazz:

Music group EMI yesterday scrapped copy protection on all its digital tracks in a move that was immediately hailed by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs as “the next big step forward in the digital music revolution”.

For the first time, downloads by artists including Robbie Williams, Coldplay and Joss Stone purchased from any online music store will be playable on any digital music player, including the market-leading iPod, with no restrictions on their use.

Music group EMI yesterday scrapped copy protection on all its digital tracks in a move that was immediately hailed by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs as “the next big step forward in the digital music revolution”.

For the first time, downloads by artists including Robbie Williams, Coldplay and Joss Stone purchased from any online music store will be playable on any digital music player, including the market-leading iPod, with no restrictions on their use.

Until now, owners of digital music players have been restricted to buying downloads from certain stores, depending on the make of their device and the sort of copy protection it could handle.

Now owners of devices other than the iPod can buy songs from the iTunes music store, and the tracks will be available with higher quality sound. Conversely, iPod owners will be able to choose from a wider range of stores.

TERRELL'S SOUND WORLD PLAYLIST

Sunday, April 1, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, N.M.
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Sundays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
NEW: email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out) by The Hombres
Radar Love by Golden Earring
Mad Daddy by The Cramps
Reformation by The Fall
You Treat Me by by Ju Jus
Don't Try It by The Devil Dogs
How Do You Catch a Girl by Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs
Inside Looking Out by The Animals
Money by Richard Thompson

Assembly of Dog by Hundred Year Flood
Club Mekon by The Mekons
Walk Idiot Walk by The Hives
I Can Hear the Grass Grow by The Move
Break It One More Time by Mary Weiss
When I'm Skinny by Spanking Charlene
Money Won't Change You by James Brown

Dr. Funkenstein by Parliament
Superman Lover by Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Topless a Go Go by The Rockets Combo
Native Girl by The Native Boys
The Jungle by Diablito

Stool Pigeon by The Soul Deacons
Green Light by The Detroit Cobras
Step Aside by Sleater-Kinney
Ocean of Noise by Arcade Fire
Gypsy Hop by Ron Romanovsky
Here Comes The Terror by King Automatic
House Where Nobody Lives by Tom Waits
CLOSING THEME: Over the Rainbow by Jerry Lee Lewis

THE SANTA FE OPRY PLAYLIST

Friday, March 30, 2007
KSFR, Santa Fe, NM
Webcasting!
10 p.m. to midnight Fridays Mountain Time
Host: Steve Terrell
NEW: email me during the show! terrell@ksfr.org

OPENING THEME: Buckaroo by Buck Owens & The Buckaroos
In the Jailhouse Now by Steve Earle & The V-Roys
Crazed Country Rebel by Hank Williams III
If Walls Could Talk by The Bottle Rockets
Poor Little Critter on the Road by Trailer Bride
Bullet of Redemption by Graham Parker
Always the Same by The Watzloves
Cottonseed by Drive By Truckers
When I Stop Dreaming by Charlie Louvin with Elvis Costello
Pig Ankle Strut by Cannon's Jug Stompers

Come On by Hundred Year Flood
Time Heals by The Gear Daddies
License to Drive Me Crazy by Jack McMahon
Ain't Got No Sweet Thing by Ponty Bone
Come and Take It by Brent Hoodenpyle & The Loners
Harper Valley PTA by Syd Straw & The Skeletons
I'm Sending Daffydills by Maddox Brothers & Rose

Truth and Darkness by Round Mountain
Lean on Me by Michael Hurley
Long Haired Country Boy by Charlie Daniels
The Running Side of Me by Dean Miller
Husbands and Wives by Roger Miller
Engine Engine Number Nine by Southern Culture on the Skids
I'll Sail My Ship Alone by Johnny Bush
My Blue Eyed Jane by Bob Dylan

I'm Tired of Pretending by Hank Thompson
Pistol Packin' Mama by John Prine & Mac Wiseman
I Walk Alone by John Egenes
Rose Petal Ear by Califone
Candy in the Window by Mary Cutrufello
Girls by Eleni Mandell
The Wilderness by Peter Case
CLOSING THEME: Comin' Down by The Meat Puppets

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