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Billy Joe Shaver (August 16, 1939 – October 28, 2020) was an American singer, songwriter and actor. Billy Joe was a prominent figure in the outlaw country genre. [ 4 ] He is considered one of the great American songwriters of his generation.
Billy Joe Shaver, legendary outlaw country songwriter who wrote songs for Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson, died Wednesday from a stroke at age 81.
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. In 2019, Shaver received the Poet's Award from the Academy of Country Music to honor his achievements in songwriting.
Billy Joe Shaver, who died Wednesday at 81, wrote country songs about what he knew firsthand: sin and heartbreak, hard living and hard working, and ultimately salvation.
The Texas-born guitarist, singer and songwriter was a seminal member of the Outlaw Country movement. His songs (and his songwriting) are everywhere, even beyond country music.
Country music singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, whom Willie Nelson once called "the greatest living songwriter," died Wednesday in his native Texas at the age of 81.
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...
Billy Joe Shaver, the outlaw-country music pioneer who wrote some of the genre’s greatest songs, died Wednesday in Waco, Texas, after suffering a stroke. He was 81. Connie Nelson, a friend of...
Texas singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, who rose to prominence amid the outlaw country uprising in the early 1970s, died Wednesday morning in a Waco hospital after suffering a massive...
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...