Artist: Bobby Bare
Author: Billy Joe Shaver
Label: RCA
Year: 1977
"But I'm gonna be a diamond someday". On VA album Honky Tonkin' ('79).
Covers:
Johnny Cash [on double gospel album A Believer Sings The Truth, originally released on his own label (Cachet), when Columbia showed little interest; Johnny also cut Shaver's If I Give My Soul on box set Unearthed with outtakes produced by Rick Rubin; Tom Jones covered that one in 2010]
Billy Joe Shaver [author; title track lp; written when he quit drugs & booze and searched for God's help, like here]
John Anderson [hit C&W]
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