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Billy Joe Shaver
12+ albums
countryoutlaw countrysinger-songwriteramericanaclassic country
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Billy Joe Shaver (born in Corsicana, TX, on 16 August 1939; died 28 October 2020) was an American Texas country music singer and songwriter. Shaver's 1973 album 'Old Five and Dimers Like Me' is a classic in the outlaw country genre. Shaver was raised by his mother, Victory Watson Shaver, his father Virgil having left the family before Shaver was born. Until he was 12, he spent a great deal of time with his grandmother in Corsicana so that his mother could work in Waco. He sometimes accompanied his mother to her job at a local nightclub, where he began to be exposed to country music. Shaver's mother remarried about the time that his grandmother died, so he and his older sister Patricia moved in with their mother and new stepfather. Shaver left school after the eighth grade to help his uncles pick cotton, but occasionally returned to school to play sports. Shaver joined the U.S. Navy on his seventeenth birthday. Upon his discharge, he worked a series of dead-end jobs, including trying to be a rodeo cowboy. About this time, he met and married Brenda Joyce Tindell. They had one son, John Edwin, known as Eddy, who was born in 1962. The two divorced and remarried several times. Shaver took a job at a lumber mill to make ends meet. One day his right hand (his dominant hand) became caught in the machinery, and he lost the better part of two fingers and contracted a serious infection. He eventually recovered, and taught himself to play the guitar without those missing fingers. Sha
top songs
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Live Forever
35,3722Black Rose
25,4693Georgia on a Fast Train
25,3894I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train
25,2295I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)
20,6606Old Chunk of Coal
19,8907Try And Try Again
12,1348Freedom's Child
11,7369Honky Tonk Heroes
11,58910That's What She Said Last Night
10,130albums
Tramp on Your Street
Old Five and Dimers Like Me
Freedom's Child
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal...But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday
The Real Deal
Billy Joe Shaver
Try and Try Again
Salt of the Earth
Live At Billy Bob's Texas
Long in the Tooth
Greatest Hits
Restless Wind: The Legendary Billy Joe Shaver 1973-1987