Billy Don Burns might not be a singer that modern mainstream country music fans know well, but if you check his name you will see the word “legend” attached to it plenty.

And one site even called him a “true outlaw of American country music.”

But it appears he took the “outlaw” part frighteningly close to not being here anymore during a recent drug and alcohol binge. A lengthy post to his Facebook page showed him looking frail, hooked up to wires in a hospital bed, and laid out the situation in his own words.

Burns explained that he flew to Los Angeles in November to spend time with Johnny Rotten.

“I knew he doesn’t like me bringing any cocaine or anything around and all that so I found me (some) cocaine and whiskey and I got messed up man,” Burns said. “It really takes me way ou

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