Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters Drop Out of Willie's Remaining Canadian Shows

      MUSIC NEWS - If you haven't heard it yet, BILLY BOB THORTON had "run in" with an interviewer on a recent Canadian radio appearance this week (see below).  During the segment Billy Bob was displeased from the interviewer's opening statements and kept quiet for most of the session with the host of CBC’s “Q”, Jian Ghomeshi, who disregarded the interview agreement and questioned Thornton's music motives and discussed some off-limits topics.  Mr Thornton was not interested to any reference to his acting career, and gave “I don’t know, maybe” and “I don’t know what you’re talking about” to most every question.   He also made a side comment about Canadian fans as being mashed potatoes with no gravy, and even though Thornton later explained that he was referring to Ghomeshi and not all Canadians.   Thornton and the rest of his band the Boxmasters were reportedly booed when they took the stage opening on the Willie Nelson & Ray Price tour in Toronto on Thursday and were greeted with "Here comes the gravy!" cries.

Well, now it's been announced that The Boxmasters won't be on the rest of Willie's Canadian tour (two shows), due to illness, but will fortunately re-join the tour on April 14, 2009 at the Palace Theatre in Stamford, CT, USA to promote their new Mod Billy  cd, and hopefully to a more friendly audience.


Check out Billy Bob Thornton "On the Air" and decide for yourself, then check out Swampland.com's take on the matter.  -

Published 4/11/09 by

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  • Everyone should email willie and ask him to do the right thing and throw Billy off his tour

    info@willienelson.com
    Anonymous 6/25/09 Reply
  • WILLIE should tell Billy BOOB that the gravy train has left without him. Why make the rest of the world listen to the GOOF.
    Anonymous 6/25/09 Reply
  • As agreed, Jian only asked questions about music, musical influences and the band ... the summary above falsely suggests otherwise. Apparently, BB expected Jian (and the audience, I guess) to pretend he had no past, was not who the listeners might...
    Anonymous 4/12/09 Reply
  • Mr. Thornton sounds like an overindulged child. If he wants to separate his music career from his acting career he perhaps should use a different name for each. In fact he might be well advised to change his name anyway, Billy Bob is hardly the name...
    Anonymous 4/12/09 Reply
  • "Jian Ghomeshi, who disregarded the interview agreement and questioned Thornton's music motives and discussed some off-limits topics. "

    This comment is absolutely incorrect, and the slant of this article is truly manipulative.

    Mr Ghomeshi is a...
    Anonymous 4/12/09 Reply
  • Oh now that's really pathetic. It finally must have dawned upon Mr. Thornton that his bizarre temper tantrum and cancelation of the last two dates of his Canadian "tour" were not just going to blow over. Now we see his people fanning out with spin...
    Anonymous 4/12/09 Reply