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Shaver is also the "hero" of the song, "Why Can't I Write Like Billy Joe" on the album Stormy Love by Bugs Henderson. Shaver's debut album, Old Five and Dimers Like Me (1973), contained many songs noted for being performed by other artists that were written by him, such as David Allan Coe and Waylon Jennings.
The Essential Billy Joe Shaver: Release date: October 2015 [36] Label: Columbia/Legacy [37] – The Collection: Release date: June 2019 [38] Label: Floating World Records – Contains the entirety of Billy Joe's albums Old Five And Dimers Like Me, I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal, Billy Joe Shaver and Salt Of The Earth on two discs. [39] When I ...
"Georgia on a Fast Train" (originally titled "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train") is a song by Billy Joe Shaver from his debut 1973 album Old Five and Dimers Like Me. [1] [2] [3] Released as a single that year, [4] it peaked at number 88 on U.S. Billboard ' s country chart.
Billy Joe Shaver, the hard-living, prodigious singer-songwriter who helped define the outlaw country genre of the 1970s, is dead at 81. The musician passed away Wednesday from a stroke at a Waco ...
Billy Joe Shaver, one of the figureheads of the “outlaw country” movement that came out of Texas and flourished in the 1970s, is the subject of a forthcoming tribute album that sees some of ...
Jennings offered to record "Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me" and told Shaver to sing another song – if Jennings liked it he would record it and Shaver could sing another; but if he did not like it, Shaver would have to leave. Shaver sang "Ain't No God in Mexico", followed by "Honky Tonk Heroes" and "Old Five and Dimers and Me". [6]
"Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver," due Nov. 11, features Shaver songs recorded by Willie Nelson, George Strait, Miranda Lambert and more.
[citation needed] The follow-up album for Jennings was Honky Tonk Heroes and the songwriter hero was Texan Billy Joe Shaver. Like Steve Young, Shaver never made it big, but his 1973 album Old Five and Dimers Like Me is considered a country classic in the outlaw genre. [citation needed]