Heroes Friends & Other Troubled Souls

Billy Don Burns | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 24, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rust Records
• ASIN: B0007US7X0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #516,992 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jaw dropping, April 18, 2006

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Classic Country Fan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heroes Friends & Other Troubled Souls (Audio CD)

This isn't your Nashville garden variety sugary what a prefect life I have music. If you want music about that look elsewhere. If you want the raw, the real the honest, the soul filled music get a copy of this cd. Billy Don Burns is amazing. His skillful songwriting and vocals is second to none.
Here is a tiny peak at this masterful lyrics

"His silhouette stands against the wall, The shadow of a man who lost it all. It helps conceal the pain, He rides though the night down a lost highway through a hole he made in is vein ,
to a plastic place where desperate dies on a dirty street called shame? From "The Dark Side of The spoon"

Or "She'd go screamin cross the plains of my soul like a train runnin wild. From "Sailin Down the Nile"

He is kind of a Waylon sings David Allen Coe.



The majority of the songs are stripped down . It sounds like it was done live in the studio without those nasty overdubs that robs the music of it's soul.
The only song that get tuned up at the end of "Runnin Drugs out of Mexico" but the song calls for it
He pays tribute to his heroes
Pasty Cline, Haggard, Keith Whitley, Johnny Cash and Hank Sr.

Pasty a duet with Willie Nelson who also plays guitar as well. Which is obvious to the listner

His cover of the Cash classic "Give My Love To Rose" is filled with emotion. His 1997 cd knocked Cash (his hero) out the number one spot on the Amreicana charts.

I've been on the net for almost 10 years I've found alot of indy artists but Billy Don is hands down the best I've ever heard.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Meanest bad-ass of the Outlaws, August 9, 2005

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Bt "Cat." (Parts unknown) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heroes Friends & Other Troubled Souls (Audio CD)

Woa! This guy's one piece of work. Billy's had a long history of friendships with Nashville, and Texas' baddest hombres (Kristofferson, Haggard, Paycheck, Cash, Jones, etc), but his music was never released until a few of years ago. I'm mighty grateful I've discovered this guy. This is what real outlaw country music stands for. This guy is so brutally honest that there's no chance you'll hear this on mainstream anything. He duets with Tanya Tucker, and Willie Nelson on this, his fourth release (only two are available), but he's twice as gritty as anyone out there today. There's no comparisons. He sings of addiction, drug smuggling, love gone wrong, and Patsy Cline; what more can you ask for? He also produced an album by Paycheck that was recorded when Johnny was in the "Pen" some years ago, but that's never seen the light of day.......yet. That story is pretty amazing. Discover Billy Don Burns today.