In Brief

*** Shaver, “Victory.” New West. Billy Joe Shaver teams with his guitarist-mandolinist son Eddy for an outing that’s largely about a man’s search for heaven--from the religious concept to the kind found in a woman’s embrace to the one in the parent-child relationship. Woody Guthrie’s searching folk and Johnny Cash’s latter-day spiritual restlessness echo through the elder Shaver’s detail-rich writing and experience-soaked vocals. Shaver plays Saturday at Jacks Sugar Shack.

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