This spirited duet sung by Joe Ely and Jo Harvey Allen is from Chippy.
Chippy: Diaries of a West Texas Hooker is the story of a prostitute who roamed the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico and Arizona during the 1930s and '40s. She did business with more than 6,000 johns, bartering her services for everything from lodging at fine hotels to treatment for the syphilis she contracted at age 15.
She was a lesbian who was married six times - once to five men simultaneously (they were away fighting World War II), and once to the same man as her mother, who was also a prostitute. She was an alcoholic who - within a week of their births - lost each of her children to syphilis, a disease she gladly passed along to her enemies.
Chippy was also a compulsive diarist who left behind 30 years' worth of journals when she died in 1967 at the age of 51. "Bundles from heaven" and ''parcels from hell" is what she called them.
You couldn't ask for better source material for a collaboration by old friends, Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen, Joe and Sharon Eli, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Jo Carol Pierce, known for their irreverent, poignant work.
This spirited duet sung by Joe Ely and Jo Harvey Allen is from Chippy.
Chippy: Diaries of a West Texas Hooker is the story of a prostitute who roamed the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico and Arizona during the 1930s and '40s. She did business with more than 6,000 johns, bartering her services for everything from lodging at fine hotels to treatment for the syphilis she contracted at age 15.
She was a lesbian who was married six times - once to five men simultaneously (they were away fighting World War II), and once to the same man as her mother, who was also a prostitute. She was an alcoholic who - within a week of their births - lost each of her children to syphilis, a disease she gladly passed along to her enemies.
Chippy was also a compulsive diarist who left behind 30 years' worth of journals when she died in 1967 at the age of 51. "Bundles from heaven" and ''parcels from hell" is what she called them.
You couldn't ask for better source material for a collaboration by old friends, Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen, Joe and Sharon Eli, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Jo Carol Pierce, known for their irreverent, poignant work.