Lorena

I was 22 years old, and I knew Billy Joe Shaver really well.

And he called me and he said, "Little girl, are you old enough to drink beer?" And I said, "Yes, sir." And I thought, "Where can I take Billy Joe that no one is gonna harass him?" So there's this little joint down in Lorena, Texas, where I'm from, called Papa Joe's.

The owner, everybody used to call her Aunt Goatie.

She has passed since then.

Well, um, my immediate reaction to this was, "What? What happened?" He's on the run.

Nobody can get ahold of him.

And it actually stayed that way for a couple days, but it turns out he ended up going down to Willie Nelson's because Lorena is about an hour and a half north of Austin, and he went down to Willie's.

[scoffs] And this is also, for a while, you know how when you get to know somebody you wanna start calling 'em nicknames or whatever, and he was like a grandpa.