This was Shaver’s debut album, produced by Kris Kristofferson. I know Shaver more through tributes (2022’s Live Forever) and other famous artists recording his songs more than I knew him. “Live Forever,” the song, was covered by Robert Duvall in the film Crazy Heart but was also done by the Highwaymen.

This is the kind of album I most appreciated from Vinyl Me Please – influential but perhaps not easily available material, well mastered and packaged. My copy is the 2024 Vinyl Me Please reissue, in their Country track (CW036). Its on brown marble vinyl with listening notes by Geoff Edgers.