Billy Joe Shaver left this world Wednesday, Oct. 28, at a hospital in Waco. According to local sources, the country music legend’s health problems resulted from a stroke. The singer was 81. The crème ...

Today, Billy Joe Shaver is hailed as a hero of the Outlaw Country movement by those in the know. Johnny Cash once called Shaver his favorite songwriter. Willie Nelson named him the “greatest living ...

On this day (October 28) in 2020, Outlaw Country artist/songwriter Billy Joe Shaver died after having a stroke at the age of 81. From threatening to fight Waylon Jennings in RCA studios to getting ...

Country music singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, whom Willie Nelson once called "the greatest living songwriter," died Wednesday at the age of 81. His friend Connie Nelson said he died Wednesday in ...

Robert Duvall — yes, the late Academy Award-winning actor and filmmaker — was once instrumental in helping Billy Joe Shaver beat an aggravated assault charge. As the story goes, Shaver, got into ...

Singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver said Wednesday the stress of assault and weapons charges hanging over his head worsened his heart condition, put him in the hospital recently and, perhaps worst of ...

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Singer Billy Joe Shaver has been found not guilty of aggravated assault in the 2007 shooting of Billy Coker at Papa Joe's Saloon near Lorena. The 54th State District Court jury in Waco returned the ...

Country singer Billy Joe Shaver shot and wounded a man in self-defense outside a bar, his attorney said Monday. A drunk, aggressive stranger with a knife followed Shaver into the parking lot of Papa ...

Billy Joe Shaver was a metaphorical outlaw. Then he was an actual outlaw. Shaver helped launch country music's "outlaw" faction in 1973, writing 11 of the 12 tracks on Waylon Jennings's "Honky Tonk ...