Texas outlaw singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, known for Waylon Jennings songs and his association with Robert Duvall, has died at 81.
WACO, Texas — Billy Joe Shaver, an outlaw country music firebrand known for a string of hits and a career that spanned decades, has died after suffering a stroke, according to Rolling Stone Shaver’s long list of songs include « Honky Tonk Heroes Like Me, » « Live Forever, » « Georgia on a Fast Train » and « Old Chunk of Coal, » which reached number 4 on the Billboard Country Singles Chart for John Anderson in 1981. He was born Aug.16,1939 in Corsicana, Texas, and was exposed to music when his mother would take him to work with her at a Waco beer joint, according to a 1998 story in the Austin Chronicle Even though he colorfully convinced Waylon Jennings to record his songs while in Nashville in the 1970s, he always considered Texas home and lived in the same small house in Waco for more than 40 years.
