Dale Watson -Where do you want it
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Live at Knuckleheads, Kansas City Mo. May 27 2007. Dale is the real thing.
www.dalewatson.com
WACO - Country music singer and songwriter Billy Joe Shaver was on his way to Houston to play a scheduled gig Friday after a McLennan County jury acquitted him of aggravated assault in the shooting of a man outside a bar in 2007.
Billy Coker, the man Shaver shot, looked stunned after state District Judge Matt Johnson read the verdict, which a jury reached after deliberating for less than two hours.
Coker, 53, said he was disappointed but would respect the justice system's outcome. Prosecutor Mark Parker told Coker, an electric company worker who lost a tooth and still has the bullet lodged in his neck, that he was sorry.
Shaver, meanwhile, hugged supporters, including members of his band.
Willie Nelson, a friend of Shaver's, had watched the final two days of testimony from the courtroom gallery but had left by the time the verdict was read.
"I knew in my heart we would win," Shaver said outside the historic courthouse, wearing a big grin.
When asked about Coker, the 70-year-old Texas Country Music Hall of Fame member said: "I am very sorry about the incident. Hopefully things will work out where we become friends."
Shaver's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin of Houston, said it was a fair trial.
DeGuerin, considered one of the state's best criminal defense lawyers, tried the case for free with three associates.
Shaver still faces a charge of unlawful carrying of a handgun by a license holder for bringing his gun to Papa Joe's Texas Saloon the night of the shooting.
Earlier in the day, Shaver testified that he feared for his life when he shot Coker in the upper lip on the back patio of the bar in Lorena, just south of Waco, with a .22-caliber pistol that was smaller than the palm of his hand.
Shaver said he was nervous after Coker brandished a knife in the bar and then asked him to step outside.
"I wanted to scare him ... wanted to beat him to the punch. \u2026 I feared he was going to kill me," Shaver said.
During cross-examination, prosecutor Beth Toben tried to use Shaver's outlaw image against him.
She suggested that he could have just left the bar if he had felt so intimidated.
That would have been "chicken shit," Shaver replied.
Toben asked whether Shaver was jealous that Coker at the time was talking to Shaver's wife, Wanda.
"I get more women than a passenger train can haul. I'm not jealous," Shaver said.
During her final argument, Toben noted that several witnesses, including Coker, said Shaver fired without provocation. She also suggested he shot because he was angry that Coker told him to shut up earlier in the night.
"He may be a honky-tonk hero," referring to the title of Shaver's autobiography, "and he may have written a lot of wonderful songs, ... but on that day, he was a honky-tonk bully."
Perhaps the most critical testimony came from Daniel Silvas, who said he saw the shooting from his truck after he pulled into the bar.
Silvas said he saw a quarrel between two men, one of whom he later learned was Shaver. The other man then went at Shaver with a knife as Shaver backed away, Silvas said.
"To me it looked like (Shaver) was just trying to ... to get away" before firing, Silvas said.
Shaver said he had spent that day with his wife, taking pictures around the Waco area as potential album art for an upcoming release.
After going to a suspension bridge, a cemetery and other places meant to reflect the spiritual nature of some of the songs, they stopped at Papa Joe's on the Interstate 35 frontage road.
He said he didn't even finish one beer that day.
After the bar's owner introduced him to Coker, Shaver said he quickly became annoyed at him and later intimidated.
Coker at one point poured Shaver's drink into a cup, Shaver said. He said it bothered him, but he decided to let it go.
Later, Shaver said, Coker forcibly moved him to a different table. "I should have stopped it then," Shaver said. "But I was so happy that day. I said, 'Well, let it go.'\u2009"
Shaver also said Coker used his folding, single-blade knife to stir his beer and then wiped the blade on his shirt.
"It scared me because I was in the condition I was in," Shaver said, alluding to shoulder and neck injuries he suffered about five months earlier.
"I couldn't fight him, no way, he was built like a doggone fireplug. He's younger than I was," Shaver said.
Shaver said that when Coker realized Wanda Shaver had previously been married to Coker's cousin, "He went bad real quick." Wanda Shaver's former husband had committed suicide, and there was bad blood between Wanda and Coker's side of the family, according to earlier testimony.
I'm watching this because of the "Tales from the Tour Bus". Hilarious episode of this story about Billy Joe. Wasn't a fan but I am now. RIP.
Thanks for watching!
RIP Billy Joe Shaver
This is the first I have heard of, and heard, this guy. I really dig it. He and the band have that great sound from the Outlaw Country era.
Check out Whitey Morgan and the 78's cover of this song.
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!! THX GOD FOR DALE WATSON!!! DAMN NEAR LAST OUTLAW STANDING!!! I was also friends with Billy Joe Damn he's Missed severly!!! Ole Dale Watson is one not to overlook!! Matter fact I hear u can catch him at The ole hideaway lounge in SW memphis!!! GIVUM Dale!!! Be there soon to hear ya!!! R.I.P. Billy Joe Shaver!!! Along With Waylon another one of My Heros!!!
I heard the cover by Whitey Ford. This is such a great tune....Just wish I wrote it. Well done!
About Billy Joe Shaver shooting a man in a bar lmao. Billy's version is called Wacko from Waco
Awesome 👍 cowboy styles hahahaha thanks for sharing this awesome tune
SOUTH OF WACO....at place called PAPA JOES!
Damn that Petal steel !!!! so good
What a fun show -- Dale never disappoints. I drove in from St. Louis to see him. I especially liked this song -- hope he records it soon. Thanks for posting.
Yes, I do love this song. thanks for posting
R.I.P. Billy Joe Shaver 💔❣️
R.I.P Billy Joe
"if I drove away, I'd be a chicken shit".
If that guy would had just apologized. Billy wouldn’t have the best story ever
RIP
Love you Dale!
RIP Billy Joe Shaver.
kinda reminds me of my first Father In Law.. Up till he got sick and died (after I divorced his daughter). Mr B.... you sitll da man ! He'd the kinda guy that would be nice enough to ask a man where does he want it?
Rip Billy
Kick ass
Copying Waylon all the way.
Not really. But I’d rather hear someone copy Waylon than the crap they have been making in Nashville since the 80’s
Influenced by Waylon for sure. What's your point?
RIP Billy Joe Shaver