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Billy Joe Shaver (August 16, 1939 – October 28, 2020) was an American country singer and songwriter. He was a prominent figure in progressive and outlaw country.
Oct 28, 2020 · Billy Joe Shaver was a Texas native who wrote songs for Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, and Waylon Jennings. He died from a stroke in 2020 after a hard-living life of accidents, tragedies, and self-defense.
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- “Live Forever” In 1993, Shaver took stock of his impact in the song “Live Forever,” which he cowrote with his son Eddy. The tune first appeared on Shaver’s Tramp on Your Street album, which featured Billy Joe and Eddy together.
- “Old Five and Dimers Like Me” With its bouncy internal rhyme scheme meter, the title track to Shaver’s 1973 debut introduced the singer as a Texas country poet on par with that album’s producer, Kris Kristofferson.
- “Ride Me Down Easy” Another great song Billy Joe Shaver penned for Waylon Jennings after they crossed paths in the early Seventies, “Ride Me Down Easy” is an outlaw’s repentance.
- “Black Rose” “The devil made me do it the first time, the second time I did it on my own,” Shaver growls in one of many killer lines in “Black Rose,” recorded for Old Five and Dimers Like Me the same year Jennings cut it for Honky Tonk Heroes.
Oct 28, 2020 · The Texas-born musician wrote classics for Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Elvis Presley, and survived a shooting incident in 2007. He also faced personal tragedies, including the loss of his son and his fingers, but remained a beloved figure in the genre.
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Billy Joe Shaver, the Texas singer-songwriter whose trenchant, vivid compositions helped launch country music’s outlaw movement in the 1970s, died on Wednesday in Waco, Texas. He was 81. His...
Oct 28, 2020 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Outlaw country singer songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, who wrote songs like “Honky Tonk Heroes,” “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” and “Old Five and Dimers Like Me,” has died He was 81. His friend Connie Nelson said he died Wednesday in Texas following a stroke.
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Oct 30, 2020 · Country music songwriter and performer Billy Joe Shaver died Wednesday in Waco, Texas, after suffering a stroke. He was 81. Shaver's music was recorded by Johnny Cash, who described him as...
