Billy don burns biography of martin

          This Martin guitar that I'm playing is one of Johnny Cash's most famous guitars....

          My Latest Book Project: The Life of Outlaw Legend Billy Don Burns In , I published my second book, Country Boy.

        1. One of the few original country outlaw singer/songwriters still out there!
        2. This Martin guitar that I'm playing is one of Johnny Cash's most famous guitars.
        3. Billy Don Burns is one of the few remaining original outlaw country music singer/songwriters.
        4. Billy Don Burns, the Arkansas native and now Nashville resident, is a tarnished troubadour who wears his Outlaw tattoo with pride.

          5. Billy Don Burns: An original outlaw

          Singer-songwriter Billy Don Burns is a man whose name is synonymous with the country music “Outlaw” movement — but to only the truest of diehard fans.

          Unlike his cohorts — Johnny Paycheck, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and the like — Burns’ career has mostly been known to those who first discovered him through his songwriting before listening to his distinctive velvety voice with gruff overtones.

          But it seems at age 64, Burns is finally getting recognized for his work, as a younger generation is discovering the outlaws’ music for the first time.

          Those who want to discover Burns’ music can do so at two gigs this weekend — Friday, Sept.

          6, at The Unique Bar & Grill in Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., and Saturday night, Sept. 7, at Bentz Street Sports Bar in Frederick, Md.

          Opening for him will be Hagerstown’s Joshua Morningstar, who Burns predicts will be in the business for a longtime because “he’s a hard worker, talented and a nice kid