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Chanteur Country US né le 16 Août 1939 à Corsicana (Texas). Billy Joe Shaver est décédé le 28 Octobre 2020.
Billy Joe
Shaver never became a household name, but his songs -- including "Good Christian
Soldier," "Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me," and "I Been to Georgia on a Fast
Train" -- became country standards during the '70s and his reputation among
musicians and critics didn't diminish in the ensuing decades. One of the best
synopses of Shaver's upbringing is his own song "I Been to Georgia on a Fast
Train." When he sings, "My grandma's old-age pension is the reason that I'm
standing here today," he ain't kidding. The "good Christian raising" and "eighth
grade education" -- not to mention being abandoned by his parents shortly after
being born, working on his uncles' farms instead of going to high school, and
losing part of his fingers during a job at a sawmill -- are all part of his life
story. "I got all my country learning," he sings, "picking cotton, raising hell,
and bailing hay."
Shaver did a quick turn in the Navy and worked a series of nowhere jobs (including
the one in the sawmill) before trying his luck in Nashville. After several
futile trips between Texas and Tennessee, he appeared one day in 1968 in Bobby
Bare's Nashville office, where he convinced Bare to
listen to him play. Bare ended
up giving him a writing job. Shaver recorded one song for Mercury, "Chicken on
the Ground," which went nowhere, but soon his songs began to see the light of
day thanks to Kris
Kristofferson ("Good Christian Soldier"), Tom
T. Hall ("Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me"), Bare ("Ride
Me Down Easy"), and later, the Allman Brothers("Sweet Mama") and Elvis
Presley ("You Asked Me To"). Shaver's real breakthrough, though, came in
1973 when Waylon
Jennings recorded an album composed almost entirely of Shaver's songs, Honky
Tonk Heroes -- largely considered the first true "outlaw" album.
Shaver's debut album was Old Five & Dimers Like Me, produced by Kristofferson and
released by Monument (Kristofferson's
label) in 1973. Along with the title track, it contained the now-classic Shaver songs
"Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me" and the aforementioned "Georgia on a Fast
Train." Shaver switched
to MGM a year later, but no album materialized. "Raising hell" was, as he had sung, part of his lifestyle at the time, and it kept him out of sight for a
couple years. In 1976, Shaver resurfaced
with When
I Get My Wingson Capricorn, and followed it up a year later with Gypsy
Boy. In 1978, Johnny
Cash recorded "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond
Some Day)," a song Shaver wrote
just after he chose to give up drugs and booze and turned to God for help.
Religious references do crop up his songs (including "Chunk of Coal"), but they
never dominate the emotions or get in the way of the earthy rhythms and melodies.
Shaver switched labels again, this time to Columbia, in 1980, and recorded
three more albums during the next decade: I'm
Just an Old Chunk of Coal, Billy
Joe Shaver, and Salt
of the Earth. The latter was produced by Shaver with
his son, Eddy,
who played on many Billy
Joe records and also toured in Dwight
Yoakam's band in the '80s. After a few more years out of the spotlight, Billy
Joe returned once again in 1993, this time recording under the name Shaver. Tramp
on Your Street, released on Zoo/Praxis, featured Eddy on
lead guitar and Billy
Joe's own raspy but lovable voice, and coming out during a time when hunky
hat acts where the new flavor in Nashville, it was quickly recognized as one of
the strongest and hardest country records to hit the shelves in many years.
Shaver toured regularly over the next couple of years and recorded a live
album for Zoo, Unshaven,
in 1995, but was dropped by the label a year later. Victory followed
on the New West label in 1998, with Electric
Shaver appearing a year later. The rock-oriented Earth
Rolls On appeared in spring 2001. His next four albums, all released on the
Compadre label, were Freedom's
Child (2002); the emotional Billy
and the Kid, which saw Shaver singing
songs written by son Eddy,
who had died of a heroin overdose on New Year's Eve in 2000 (2004); Real
Deal (2005); and Everybody's
Brother (2007). The year 2007 also saw the release of Storyteller,
a live set recorded in 1992, on Sugar Hill Records. Ever the road warrior, Shaver recorded
a gig in September of 2011, and released it as the CD/DVD package Live
at Billy Bob's Texas in July 2012. Long
in the Tooth, released in 2014 in Shaver's
75th year, featured ten new original songs.
Billy Joe Shaver passed away on October 28, 2020.
http://www.billyjoeshaver.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Joe_Shaver
Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
Style musical : Americana, Country Rock, Honky Tonk, Outlaw Country, Progressive Country
Years in activity :
1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Singles
11/1970 | SP MERCURY 73133 (US) | . |
Chicken On The Ground / Laying Here |
08/1973 | SP MONUMENT ZS7-8580 (US) | . |
I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train / Old Five And Dimers Like Me |
01/1974 | SP MONUMENT ZS7-8593 (US) | . |
Black Rose / Bottom Dollar |
12/1974 | SP MGM M 14774 (US) | . |
Lately I Been Leanin' T'ward The Blues / I Couldn't Be Me Without You |
1976 | SP CAPRICORN CPS 0263 (US) | . |
Ride Me Down Easy / America, You Are My Woman |
02/1978 | SP CAPRICORN CPS 0286 (US) | . |
You Asked Me To / Silver Wings Of Time |
1978 | SP CAPRICORN CPS 0290 (US) | . |
Billy B Dammed / Believer |
04/1981 | SP COLUMBIA 11-02011 (US) | . |
Saturday Night / Blue Texas Waltz |
06/1981 | SP COLUMBIA 18-02175 (US) | . |
Ragged Old Truck / Fit To Kill And Going Out Of Style |
08/1981 | SP COLUMBIA 18-02460 (US) | . |
When The Word Was Thunderbird / Mexico |
03/1982 | SP COLUMBIA 18-02853 (US) | . |
Ride Me Down Easy / Love You Till The Cows Come Home |
05/1982 | SP COLUMBIA 18-02976 (US) | . |
Amtrack (And Ain't Coming Back) / (We Are) The Cowboys |
09/1982 | SP COLUMBIA 18-03237 (US) | . |
Bottom Dollar / One Moving Part |
04/2016 | SP Lightning Rod LRR-96958 (US) |
Wacko From Waco / When Fallen Angels Fly |
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07/2016 | SP INFINITY CAT ICR-111 (US) |
45 Yr 45 - Wacko From Waco (Billy Joe SHAVER) / Life Pass (DIARRHEA PLANET) |
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Albums
1973 | LP 12" MONUMENT KZ-32293 (US) | OLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE ME - Black Rose / Old Five And Dimers Like Me / LA Turnaround / Jesus Christ What A Man / Played The Game Too Long / I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train / Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me / Low Down Freedom / Jesus Was Our Saviour (And Cotton Was Our King) / Serious Souls / Bottom Dollar | |||
1976 | LP 12" CAPRICORN CP-0171 (US) | WHEN I GET MY WINGS - Texas Uphere Tennessee / Good Lord Knows / I Tried / Ride Me Down Easy / When I Get My Wings / Ain't No God In Mexico / Love You Till The Cows Come Home / Woman Is The Wonder Of The World / When The Word Was Thunderbird / America You Are My Woman / Restless Wind / Evergreen | |||
11/1977 | LP 12" CAPRICORN CP- 0192 (US) | GYPSY BOY - Billy B Damned / We Stayed Too Long At The Fair / Honky Tonk Heroes / I'm Going Grazy In 3/4 Time / Gypsy Boy / Chicken On The Ground / Everything Everywhere's / Slow Rollin' Low / Silver Wings Of Time / Believer / You Asked Me To | |||
04/1981 | LP 12" COLUMBIA FC-37078 (US) | I'M JUST AN OLD CHUNK OF COAL... But I'm Gonna Be A Diamond Someday - Fit To Kill And Going Out In Style / Blue Texas Waltz / Saturday Night / Ragged Old Truck / I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal / When The Word Was Thunderbird / We Are The Cowboys / Mexico / It Ain't Nothing New Babe / The Road | |||
07/1982 | LP 12" COLUMBIA FC-37959 (US) | BILLY JOE SHAVER - Amtrack And Ain't Coming Back / Bottom Dollar / Old Five And Dimers Like Me / How Many Hearts Must You Break / Oklahoma Wind / Ride Me Down Easy / Tell Me Virginia / London Freedom / One Moving Part,I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train | |||
1986 | LP 12" CBS CBS 450433 1 (EUR) | I LOVE COUNTRY - Hell Raisers - Billy Joe Shaver / Johnny Paycheck - Billy Joe Shaver : I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be A Diamond Someday) / Old Five And Dimers Like Me / Fit To Kill And Going Out Of Style / When The Word Was Thunderbird / Amtrak (And Ain't Comin' Back) / Oklahoma Wind / Saturday Night / I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train / Johnny Paycheck : Take This Job And Shove It / She's All I Got / Drinkin' And Drivin' / I'm The Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised) / Fifteen Beers / Turnin' Off A Memory / You Better Move On / The Outlaw's Prayer | |||
09/1987 | LP 12" COLUMBIA FC-40903 (US) | SALT OF THE EARTH - Sweet Mama / Hardworkin' Man / Manual Labor / Hill Country Love Song / You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ / Devil Made Me Do It The First Time / Fun While It Lasted / Whiteman's Watermelon / Street Walkin' Woman / Good New Blues | |||
1991 | CD COLUMBIA / CURB 469460 2 (AUS) | COUNTRY HellRaisers - Billy Joe Shaver / Johnny Paycheck - Billy Joe Shaver : I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be A Diamond Someday) / Old Five And Dimers Like Me / Fit To Kill And Going Out Of Style / When The Word Was Thunderbird / Amtrak (And Ain't Comin' Back) / Oklahoma Wind / Saturday Night / I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train / Johnny Paycheck : Take This Job And Shove It / She's All I Got / Drinkin' And Drivin' / I'm The Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised) / Fifteen Beers / Turnin' Off A Memory / You Better Move On / The Outlaw's Prayer | |||
08/1993 | CD Volcano 31063 (US) | TRAMP ON YOUR STREET - Heart Of Texas (feat: Waylon Jennings) / Oklahoma Wind (feat: Waylon Jennings) / Georgia On A Fast Train / Live Forever (feat: Brother Phelps) / If I Give My Soul (feat: Brother Phelps) / Tramp On Your Street / K.A.N.D., Corsicana, Texas / Good Ol' U.S.A. / The Hottest Thing In Town / When the Fallen Angels Fly / Take A Chance On Romance / I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I'm Going To Be A Diamond Someday) / I Want Some More - Tenntex Tear Down | |||
07/1994 | CD BEAR FAMILY BCD 15775 (GER) | HONKY TONK HEROES - Texas Uphere Tennessee / Good Lord Knows I Tried / Ride Me Down Easy / When I Get My Wings / Ain't No God In Mexico / Love You Till The Cows Come Home / Woman Is The Wonder Of The World / When The Word Was Thunderbird / America You Are My Woman / Restless Wind / Evergreen / Billy B Damned / We Stayed Too Long At The Fair / Honky Tonk Heroes / I'm Going Crazy In 3/4 Time / Gypsy Boy / Chicken On The Ground / Everything Everywhere's / Slow Rollin' Low / Silver Wings Of Time / Believer / You Asked Me To / Lately I Been Leaning Towards The Blues / I Couldn't Be Me Without You / Music City USA | |||
06/1995 | CD VOLCANO 31104 (US) | UNSHAVEN - LIVE AT SMITH'S OLDE BAR - The Hottest Thing In Town / Good News Blues / Georgia On A Fast Train / Honky Tonk Heroes / Honey Bee / Ride Me Down Easy / I Love You 'til The Cows Come Home / Live Forever / Black Rose / Old Chunk Of Coal / Sweet Mama / You Asked Me To | |||
09/1995 | CD RAZOR & TIE RE-8-2082-2 (US) | RESTLESS WIND - Black Rose / Old Five And Dimers Like Me / Bottom Dollar / Lately I Been Leanin' T Ward The Blues / Texas Uphere Tennessee / Ride Me Down Easy / When I Get My Wings / Restless Wind / You Asked Me To / Fit To Kill And Going Out In Style / Ragged Old Truck / I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal / Amtrack, Low Down Freedom / I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train / Sweet Mama / Fun While It Lasted / Good News Blues | |||
07/1996 | CD JUSTICE JR-2301-2 (US) | HIGHWAY OF LIFE - Yesterday Tomorrow Was Today / West Texas Waltz / Highway Of Life / Tomorrow's Goodbye / Blue Blue Blues / Comin' On Strong / You're As Young As The Woman You Feel / Goodbye Yesterday / Moonshine And Indian Blood / Look For Me When You See Me Comin' / First And Last Time | |||
1996 | CD Koch International KOC-CD-7938 (US) | OLD FIVE AND DIMERS LIKE ME - Black Rose / Old Five And Dimers Like Me / LA Turnaround / Jesus Christ What A Man / Played The Game Too Long / I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train / Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me / Low Down Freedom / Jesus Was Our Saviour (And Cotton Was Our King) / Serious Souls / Bottom Dollar / BONUS TRACKS : Ride Cowboy Ride / Good Christian Soldiers | |||
07/1998 | CD NEW WEST NW-6003 (US) | SHAVER VICTORY - Son Of Calvary / You Can't Beat Jesus Christ / Cowboy Who Started The Fight / Live Forever / I'm In Love / If I Give My Soul / When The Fallen Angels Fly / Christian Soldier / My Mother's Name Is Victory / Old Five And Dimers / Presents From The Past / Bow And The Arrow | |||
05/1999 | CD NEW WEST NW-6007 (US) | ELECTRIC SHAVER - Thunderbird / Try And Try Again / Lately I Been Leanin' Toward The Blues / New York City / You Wouldn't Know Love (If You Fell In It) / Slave At The Feet Of The Queen / People And Their Problems / Manual Labor / I'll Be Here / Heart To Heart / Way Down Texas Way / She Can Dance | |||
02/2000 | CD Free Falls Int. FFE-7008-2 (US) |
Honky Tonk Heroes - Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson & Billy Joe Shaver - Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me) / Willie The Wandering Gypsy And Me / I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal / Ain't No God In Mexico / You Asked Me To / Oklahoma Wind / I Couldn't Be Me Without / Tramp On Your Street / Easy Come Easy Go (aka: Ride Me Down Easy) / We Are The Cowboys |
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04/2001 | CD NEW WEST NW-6025 (US) | EARTH ROLLS ON - Love Is So Sweet / Evergreen Fields / Hard Headed Heart / New York City Girl / Restless Wind / Sail Of My Soul / You're Too Much For Me / Blood Is Thicker Than Water / Star In My Heart / It's Not Over Till It's Over / Hearts A'Bustin' / Leavin' Amarillo / I Don't Seem To Fit Anywhere / Earth Rolls On | |||
11/2002 | CD Music World / COMPADRE 9251502 (US) | FREEDOM'S CHILD - Hold On To Yours (And I'll Hold On To Mine) / Freedom's Child / That's Why The Man In Black Sings The Blues / Honey Chile / Good Ol' U.S.A. / Day By Day / Corsicana Daily Sun / That's What She Said Last Night / Drinkin' Back / We / Wild Cow Gravy / Deja Blues / Magnolia Mother's Love | |||
11/2002 | 2 CD Sphincter SRI-00512D (US) |
Live From Down Under - Billy Joe Shaver / Kinky Friedman :
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12/2003 | CD COMPADRE 6-16892-55692-3 (US) | TRY AND TRY AGAIN - Try And Try Again / Live Forever / I've Been To Georgia On A Fast Train / When Fallen Angels Fly / Honky Tonk Heroes / Hottest Thing In Town / You Wouldn't Know Love / I'm An Old Chunk Of Coal / You Asked Me To, Black Rose / LA Turnaround / Tramp On Your Street / You Can't Beat Jesus Christ | |||
08/2004 | CD COMPADRE 6-16892-59502-1 (US) |
Billy And The Kid - Fame / Lighting A Torch /.Baptism Of Fire /.Eagle On The Ground /.Drown In Love /.If It Don't Kill You /.Window Rock / Velvet Chains / King Of Fools / Step On Up /.Necessary Evil |
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0/2005 | CD COMPADRE 9263122 (US) |
Tribute To Billy Joe Shaver - Live - Georgia On A Fast Train (Billy Joe Shaver / Diamondback Texas) / Randall Knife (Guy Clark) / Ride Me Down Easy (Bruce Robison / Kelly Willis) / Hearts-A-Bustin (Jimmie Dale Gilmore / Colin Gilmore) / Bottom Dollar (Robert Earl Keen Jr.) / Waco Moon (Todd Snider) / Honky Tonk Masquerade (Joe Ely) / You Asked Me To (Dale Watson) / Ava Adelle (Jack Ingram) / Live Forever (Cory Morrow) / Black Rose (Rodney Hayden) / Bad Rock And Roll (The Geezinslaws) / You Wouldn't Know Love (Billy Joe Shaver) / Try And Try Again (Billy Joe Shaver) / Tramp On Your Street (Billy Joe Shaver) |
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09/2005 | CD COMPADRE 6-16892-66422-2 (US) |
The Real Deal - Live Forever (feat: Big & Rich) / There's No Fool Like An Old Fool / Livin' A Lovin' Lie / It Just Ain't There For Me No More / Jesus Christ Is Still The King / Slim Chance And The Can't Hardly Playboys (feat: Kevin Fowler) / I Changed My Mind / Sweet Melody / Valentine (feat: Nanci Griffith) / You Ought To Be With Me When I'm Alone / Down The Road By The Way / West Texas Waltz (feat: Kimmie Rhodes) / The Real Deal / If The Trailer's Rockin' Don't Come Knockin' / Try And Try Again / Aunt Jessie's Chicken Ranch / Feliz Navidad (feat: José Feliciano / Flaco Jiménez) |
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04/2007 | CD COMPADRE 6-16892-87482-9 (US) |
Greatest Hits - Good Ol USA / Georgia On A Fast Train / Freedom's Child / Try And Try Again / Old Chunk Of Coal / Step On Up (with Eddy Shaver) / Honky Tonk Heroes / Hottest Thing In Town / That's What She Said Last Night / When Fallen Angels Fly / I Couldn't Be Me Without You / Black Rose / Light A Candle For Me / Ride Me Down Easy / Melody / Old Five And Dimers / You Asked Me To / Live Forever (with Big & Rich) |
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08/2007 | CD Music World / COMPADRE 6-16892-90292-8 (US) | EVERYBODY'S BROTHER - Rolling Stone / Get Thee Behind Me Satan (with John ANDERSON) / When I Get My Wings / Most Precious / Winning Again (with Marty STUART) / No Earthly Good (with Kris KRISTOFFERSON) / If You Don't Love Jesus / To Be Loved By A Woman / Tough Get Going / Greatest Man Alive / Played The Game Too Long (with Tanya TUCKER) / You'll Always Be My Best Friend / Jesus Is The Only One That Loves Us (with John ANDERSON) / Everybody's Brother (with Bill MILLER) /You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ (with Johnny CASH) | |||
08/2007 | CD Music World / COMPADRE 6-16892-91062-6 (US) | EVERYBODY'S BROTHER - Inspirational Version - Rolling Stone / Get Thee Behind Me Satan (with John ANDERSON) / When I Get My Wings / Most Precious / Winning Again (with Marty STUART) / No Earthly Good (with Kris KRISTOFFERSON) / If You Don't Love Jesus / To Be Loved By A Woman / Tough Get Going / Greatest Man Alive / Played The Game Too Long (with Tanya TUCKER) / You'll Always Be My Best Friend / Jesus Is The Only One That Loves Us (with John ANDERSON) / Everybody's Brother (with Bill MILLER) /You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ (with Johnny CASH) / BONUS VIDEO : Get Behind Me Satan | |||
09/2007 | CD SUGAR HILL SUGCD-4030 (US) | STORYTELLER - LIVE AT THE BLUEBIRD - Georgia On A Fast Train / Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me / Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me) / Black Rose / Talk: My Ex-Wife Brenda / Amtrak (Ain't Come Back) / Talk: Surgery - NYC / Cowboy Who Started The Fight / Talk: I Forget / Old Chunk Of Coal / Moonshine And Indian Blood / Highway Of Life / Live Forever / You Asked Me To | |||
03/2012 | CD + DVD NEW WEST NW 6225 (US) | LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TX :
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07/2012 | CD + DVD SMITH MUSIC GROUP 5066-2 (US) | LIVE AT BILLY BOB'S TEXAS :
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01/2013 | 2 CD Real Gone RGM-0113 (US) |
The Complete Columbia Recordings :
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04/2013 | CD RAVEN RVCD-365 (AUS) |
When I Get My Wings / Gypsy Boy - When I Get My Wings : Texas Uphere Tennessee / The Good Lord Knows I Tried / Woman Is The Wonder Of The World / When I Get My Wings / Ain't No God In Mexico / Love You Till The Cows Come Home / Ride Me Down Easy / When The Word Was Thunderbird / America You Are My Woman / A Restless Wind / Evergreen / Gypsy Boy : Billy B. Damned / We Stayed Too Long At The Fair / Honky Tonk Heroes / I'm Going Crazy In 3/4 Time / Gypsy Boy / Chicken On The Ground / Everything, Everwhere's / Slow Rollin' Low / Silver Wings Of Time / The Believer / You Asked Me / Bonus Tracks : Fit To Kill And Going Out In Style / Saturday Night / I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be A Diamond Someday) |
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08/2014 | CD Lightning Rod LRR 25423 (US) | Long in the Tooth - Hard To Be An Outlaw (Billy Joe Shaver feat: Willie Nelson) / Long In The Tooth / The Git Go / Sunbeam Special / I'll Love You As Much As I Can / Last Call For Alcohol / Checkers & Chess / American Me / I'm In Love / Music City USA | |||
2023 | CD Cleopatra CL03847 (US) |
One Night At Luckenbach Texas - I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train / Honky Tonk Heroes / That's What She Said Last Night / Black Rose / You Wouldn't Know Love (If You Fell In It) / You Ask Me To / I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal / When The Fallen Angels Fly / Star In My Heart / Live Forever / If You Don't Love Jesus / The Hottest Thing In Town / Good Ol' U.S.A. / Follow Me Down / Love Is So Sweet / You Just Can't Beat Jesus / Live Forever [Real Hypha Remix] |
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