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SINGER SONG WRITE BILLY JOE SHAVER DIES

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Billy Joe Shaver, Seminal Outlaw-Country Songwriter, Dead at 81
Best known as the songwriter of Waylon Jennings’ 1973 album ‘Honky Tonk Heroes,’ the colorful Texas raconteur had his songs recorded by Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley 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 Shaver’s, confirmed his death to Rolling Stone.


Shaver’s hard-lived career classics included “Honky Tonk Heroes,” “Georgia on a Fast Train,” “Old Five and Dimers Like Me,” and “Live Forever.” He wrote nine out of the 10 songs on Waylon Jennings’ 1973 outlaw-country breakthrough Honky Tonk Heroes; Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley all recorded his songs; and in 2010, Willie Nelson called him “the greatest living songwriter.
Shaver lived the outlaw lifestyle that others only sang about. In 2007, he was charged with shooting a man in the face at a bar near his home in Waco. The trial drew friends including Nelson and the actor Robert Duvall in support of Shaver, who was ultimately found not guilty and went on to turn the ordeal into a song, “Wacko From Waco. MUSIC IS NOT OURS NO CLAIMS TO IT AT ALL THANK YOU !
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