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Billy Joe Shaver, the Texas singer-songwriter who was a key player in the Outlaw Country movement, died on Oct. 28, age 81, after suffering a massive stroke the day before. Shaver had recently undergone hip replacement surgery and was recovering in a Waco rehabilitation facility when the stroke occurred.

As a youth, he spent more time working on family farms than in school. As he wrote in his song Fast Train, “I have an eighth-grade education … I got all my country learning picking cotton, raising hell and bailing hay.” 

His grandmother gave him a Gene Autry guitar when he was 11. Shaver left home at 16 to serve in the Navy and afterwards took a series of jobs, including one in the professional rodeo. After losing several fingers in a sawmill accident, he decided to do what he really loved to do: write songs. 

In 1965, Shaver hitchhiked to Nashville in the back of a cantaloupe truck. Camping himself at the office of country singer Bobby Bare, he convinced the Nashville star to listen to his songs. Impressed, Bare signed him to a $50 a week job as a songwriter. Bare recorded Ride Me Down Easy and other musicians took notice of his tunes too. Kris Kristofferson did Good Christian Soldier and Tom T. Hall covered Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me.

In the early '70s, he became a close companion to Willie Nelson. He was part of a close circle of friends that included Nelson’s Highwaymen bandmates Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson, as well as Texas music greats Jerry Jeff Walker and Johnny Bush, both of whom died earlier this month.

Shaver had a career breakthrough year in 1973. He released his debut album Old Five and Dimers Like Me (Kris Kristofferson produced) and he wrote almost all the songs on Waylon Jennings’ landmark album Honky Tonk Heroes, released that same year.

A song Jennings and Shaver co-wrote, You Asked Me To, was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1975. That was just one of many Shaver songs eventually recorded by hundreds of artists. They include Ride Me Down Easy (Jerry Lee Lewis), Georgia on a Fast Train (Johnny Cash), Black Rose(Willie Nelson) and Live Forever (actor Robert Duvall, on the soundtrack to the film Crazy Heart). Nelson also included Shaver’s song We Are the Cowboys on his latest record First Rose of Spring, released in July.

Shaver went on to release more than 20 albums for such labels as MGM, Capricorn, Columbia, Zoo/Praxis, New West, and Sugar Hill Records. His 2007 album, Everybody’s Brother (Compadre Records), earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Southern/Country/Bluegrass Album and his most recent release, 2014’s Long in the Tooth (Lightning Rod Records), was his first to chart in Billboard’s Top Country Albums. 

His biography included moments of tragedy. He married, divorced and remarried Brenda Tindell, who died of cancer in 1999. Their son Eddy Shaver, who played guitar in his father’s band for many years, died of a heroin overdose on Dec. 31, 2000. On July 4, 2001, Shaver suffered a massive, and nearly fatal heart attack while performing on stage.

In 2007, Shaver was arrested for aggravated assault after shooting a man outside a bar in a Waco suburb. He was acquitted in 2010 after testifying that he acted in self-defense, in a trial that also included character-witness testimony from Willie Nelson.

He was honoured with the first Americana Music Award for Lifetime Achievement in Songwriting in 2002 and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006.

A long-time admirer and friend, Robert Duvall cast Shaver in his 1996 movie The Apostle, and Shaver later acted in such films as Secondhand Lions, The Wendell Baker Story, and Bait Shop. Duvall also produced the documentary A Portrait of Billy Joe.

Shaver’s music attracted many illustrious admirers over the years. Johnny Cash, who covered Shaver’s I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Some Day), called him “my favorite songwriter,” while Willie Nelson, a frequently Shaver collaborator, declared that "Billy Joe is definitely the best writer in Texas.” Bob Dylan not only has performed Shaver’s Old Five and Dimers Like Me in concert, but even name-checked him in his tune I Feel a Change Comin’ On. 

One Canadian connection for Shaver: Toronto bassist Brad Fordham (formerly of Rang Tango and long based in Austin) regularly played in Shaver's band over the past two decades, with Fordham's wife Lisa Pankratz taking drumming duties. Sources: Rolling Stone, Conqueroo, Austin 360

 

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1. Shaver performed a selection for Jennings including "Ain't No God in Mexico," "Old Five and Dimers" and "Honky Tonk Heroes." The last song would become the title track of Jennings' 1973 full-length, now regarded as a landmark outlaw country recording. (84)

2. Billy Joe Shaver: 'Tramp on Your Street'Zoo/Praxis 72445-11063; CD and cassette.At a time when country music has been reduced to an arena-ready formula, Billy Joe Shaver is a blotch on the horizon. (80)

3. Shaver is recognized as one of country music's original outlaws, penning songs that would go on to be recorded by Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Elvis Presley and more. (76)

4. One of the original outlaws of country music, Billy Joe Shaver recorded the Squidbillies theme for us in a church outside of Austin. (74)

5. Last year, Shaver received the Poet's Award from the Academy of Country Music for his songwriting work. (65)

6. Billy Joe Shaver might've been the only true outlaw who ever made his living writing about the inner workings of his heart. (65)

7. Born in Coriscana, TX, on August 16, 1939, Shaver was raised by his mother, Victory Watson Shaver, and first discovered country music through accompanying her to her job at a local nightclub. (65)

8. Outside of music, Shaver appeared in Robert Duvall's 1996 film The Apostle and joined him again for speaking roles in 2003's Secondhand Lions and 2005's The Wendell Baker Story. (59)

9. When Keith Christopher was in my band, he once told me that he was w/ Billy Joe Shaver on the way to a gig & they stopped at McDonald's. (59)

10. Shaver's life and work were examined in 2004 documentary A Portrait of Billy Joe. (57)

11. RIP Billy Joe Shaver just lost a friend & I am totally heartbroken. (54)

12. Billy Joe Shaver was an 8th grade dropout; he was a roustabout always up for a fight; he was a poet. (53)

13. "I didn't want your normal Nashville songwriter, and Billy Joe came in one morning and he sang me some songs and I thought, 'That fucker's crazy,' " Bare recalled to the Washington Post in 2018. (53)

14. Shaver earned through living, and that hard-won knowledge infuses "Tramp on Your Street," his first recording in 10 years. (53)

15. Kris Kristofferson recorded Shaver's "Good Christian Soldier" for his 1971 sophomore album The Silver Tongued Devil and I. (52)

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• Billy Joe Shaver: 'Tramp on Your Street'Zoo/Praxis 72445-11063; CD and cassette.At a time when country music has been reduced to an arena-ready formula, Billy Joe Shaver is a blotch on the horizon.
• Shaver is recognized as one of country music's original outlaws, penning songs that would go on to be recorded by Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Elvis Presley and more.
• One of the original outlaws of country music, Billy Joe Shaver recorded the Squidbillies theme for us in a church outside of Austin.
• Last year, Shaver received the Poet's Award from the Academy of Country Music for his songwriting work.
• Billy Joe Shaver might've been the only true outlaw who ever made his living writing about the inner workings of his heart.
• Born in Coriscana, TX, on August 16, 1939, Shaver was raised by his mother, Victory Watson Shaver, and first discovered country music through accompanying her to her job at a local nightclub.
• Outside of music, Shaver appeared in Robert Duvall's 1996 film The Apostle and joined him again for speaking roles in 2003's Secondhand Lions and 2005's The Wendell Baker Story.
• When Keith Christopher was in my band, he once told me that he was w/ Billy Joe Shaver on the way to a gig & they stopped at McDonald's.
• Shaver's life and work were examined in 2004 documentary A Portrait of Billy Joe.
• RIP Billy Joe Shaver just lost a friend & I am totally heartbroken.
• Billy Joe Shaver was an 8th grade dropout; he was a roustabout always up for a fight; he was a poet.
• "I didn't want your normal Nashville songwriter, and Billy Joe came in one morning and he sang me some songs and I thought, 'That fucker's crazy,' " Bare recalled to the Washington Post in 2018.
• Shaver earned through living, and that hard-won knowledge infuses "Tramp on Your Street," his first recording in 10 years.
• Kris Kristofferson recorded Shaver's "Good Christian Soldier" for his 1971 sophomore album The Silver Tongued Devil and I.

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1. * Rising - Related topics with the biggest increase in search frequency since the last time period.

2. Billy Joe Shaver an American singer and songwriter whose work popularized the outlaw country movement has died.

3. Shaver passed away today in Waco, TX, after suffering a stroke.

4. He was 81.

5. Shaver is recognized as one of country music's original outlaws, penning songs that would go on to be recorded by Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Elvis Presley and more.

6. and was called "the greatest living songwriter" by Willie Nelson in 2010.

7. Born in Coriscana, TX, on August 16, 1939, Shaver was raised by his mother, Victory Watson Shaver, and first discovered country music through accompanying her to her job at a local nightclub.

8. At 17, he joined the U.S. Navy and would return to Texas upon being discharged.

9. A job at a lumber mill saw Shaver lose most of two fingers on his right hand, and he learned to play guitar in spite of the missing digits upon his recovery.

10. whom he would divorce and remarry several times.

11. In 1962, the couple had one son, John Edwin "Eddy" Shaver, who would go on to play guitar alongside his father.

12. Shaver would soon hitchhike to Nashville in 1966 and was invited to pitch his work at RCA by singer-songwriter Bobby Bare.

13. "I didn't want your normal Nashville songwriter, and Billy Joe came in one morning and he sang me some songs and I thought, 'That fucker's crazy,' " Bare recalled to the Washington Post in 2018.

14. "Then I got to thinking about it and I said, 'Hell, that's what I'm looking for' and [ran] him down.

15. And he signed up to write for me.

16. Kris Kristofferson recorded Shaver's "Good Christian Soldier" for his 1971 sophomore album The Silver Tongued Devil and I.

17. Jennings took an interest in Shaver's songwriting, but failed to return his calls after meeting at Dripping Springs.

18. Shaver travelled to Nashville to give Jennings an ultimatum at a recording studio.

19. As he told the Post in 2018, "[Jennings] said, 'What do you want, hoss?' I said: 'Man, tell you what.

20. Shaver performed a selection for Jennings including "Ain't No God in Mexico," "Old Five and Dimers" and "Honky Tonk Heroes." The last song would become the title track of Jennings' 1973 full-length, now regarded as a landmark outlaw country recording.

21. Shaver would release his Kristofferson-produced debut full-length, Old Five and Dimers Like Me, that same year through Monument.

22. Not long after the release of Old Five and Dimers Like Me, Monument soon folded, leading Shaver to sign with Capricorn for 1976's When I Get My Wings and 1977's Gypsy Boy.

23. Nevertheless, he would continue recording into 1980's, playing alongside the likes of Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris, Ben Keith, Karl Himmel, Nicolette Larson and son John Edwin on his solo efforts.

24. Shaver lost both his mother and wife Brenda in 1999, ahead of John Edwin dying of a heroin overdose in 2000 at age 38.

25. Shaver himself nearly died in 2001 after suffering a heart attack onstage in Texas.

26. Upon recovering, he returned to music with 2002's Freedom's Child and continued recording and touring until his death.

27. His final album is 2014's Long In the Tooth.

28. Outside of music, Shaver appeared in Robert Duvall's 1996 film The Apostle and joined him again for speaking roles in 2003's Secondhand Lions and 2005's The Wendell Baker Story.

29. Shaver's life and work were examined in 2004 documentary A Portrait of Billy Joe.

30. In 2007, Shaver was arrested on charges of aggravated assault and possessing a firearm in a prohibited place after shooting a man in the face outside a bar.

31. He was acquitted in 2010 after testifying that he acted in self-defence.

32. Shaver was also name checked by Bob Dylan on "I Feel a Change Comin' On" from 2009's Together Through Life.

33. Last year, Shaver received the Poet's Award from the Academy of Country Music for his songwriting work.

34. Find tributes to the late songwriter from contemporaries and listeners below.

35. Billy Joe Shaver might've been the only true outlaw who ever made his living writing about the inner workings of his heart.

36. The realest of them all.

37. I'm saddened to learn that Billy Joe Shaver has passed away.

38. Billy Joe opened for me on one of my early tours and was always amazing.

39. His stories were captivating.

40. He will be sorely missed.

41. One of the original outlaws of country music, Billy Joe Shaver recorded the Squidbillies theme for us in a church outside of Austin.

42. He was a genius songwriter, had a great sense of humor and gave our show instant credibility.

43. RIP Billy Joe Shaver.

44. Oh no! Man BJS was so good.

45. I have Like 15 play lists and he's in 10 of em.

46. Looks like his song "live forever" has come true.

47. RIP Billy Joe Shaver just lost a friend & I am totally heartbroken.

48. RIP Billy Joe Shaver.

49. We opened our first show for him at Smith's Olde Bar.

50. Billy Joe Shaver was an 8th grade dropout; he was a roustabout always up for a fight; he was a poet.

51. When Keith Christopher was in my band, he once told me that he was w/ Billy Joe Shaver on the way to a gig & they stopped at McDonald's.

52. Couple miles later BJS tapped Keith on the shoulder & handed him an empty McD's bag with the lyrics to Live Forever he'd just written on it.

53. Billy Joe Shaver: 'Tramp on Your Street'Zoo/Praxis 72445-11063; CD and cassette.At a time when country music has been reduced to an arena-ready formula, Billy Joe Shaver is a blotch on the horizon.

54.  Unapologetically raw, the 52-year-old Texas songwriter was the inspiration for Waylon Jennings's persona and created the songs for his watershed 1973 album, "Honky-Tonk Heroes."  Mr.

55. Shaver guts feelings and strings them over taut arrangements anchored by his son Eddie's stinging guitar.Ragged emotions are something Mr.

56. Shaver earned through living, and that hard-won knowledge infuses "Tramp on Your Street," his first recording in 10 years.

57.  Whether it's the roughneck bump and shuffle of "Georgia on a Fast Train," with Mr.

58. Shaver yowling the lyrics of bumpkin protest, or the medication grass of "Live Forever," these are songs of redemption.

59.  In his world, though, redemption takes many forms: unabashed -- and unreal -- lust ("The Hottest Thing in Town"), surrender to a higher power ("If I Give My Soul") and, somewhere between, yearning (the fragile "When Fallen Angels Fly," the eerie "I Want Some More").

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61. Mr.

62. Shaver once saw Hank Williams and sang of the experience: "His body was worn, but his spirit was free/And he sang every song, looking right straight at me," offering self-revelation in the process.

63. With a gruff voice and awkward phrasing, he knows that truth isn't pretty.

64. Still, he presents the tales and insights of a well-traveled soul wrapped in a buzzing barbed-wire guitar and a backbeat that crashes like a garden gate.

65. Sidestepping Nashville's slickness for the grit of stripped-bare writing and playing, Mr.

66. Truly brilliant songwriter.

67. Another Texas music legend gone.

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