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ALBUMOne Night At Luckenbach Texas (Live)Billy Joe Shaver
Albums by Billy Joe Shaver
ALBUMLong in the ToothBilly Joe Shaver
ALBUMLive Down UnderBilly Joe Shaver & Kinky Friedman
ALBUMThe Earth Rolls OnShaver & Billy Joe Shaver
ALBUMElectric ShaverShaver & Billy Joe Shaver
ALBUMVictoryShaver & Billy Joe Shaver
ALBUMUnshaven - the Live AlbumBilly Joe Shaver
ALBUMTramp On Your StreetBilly Joe Shaver
ALBUMSalt of the EarthBilly Joe Shaver
ALBUMBilly Joe ShaverBilly Joe Shaver
ALBUMOld Five And Dimers Like MeBilly Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver's Popular Music Videos
Get Thee Behind Me Satan (feat. John Anderson) [Closed-Captioned]
Billy Joe Shaver
Live Forever (feat. Big & Rich) [Closed Captioned]
Billy Joe Shaver
Freedom's Child
Billy Joe Shaver
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Billy Joe Shaver Essentials
The prodigious country hitmaker defined the sound of outlaw country.
Billy Joe Shaver: The Songwriters
This Texan helped define outlaw country’s rough edges.
Artist Biography
Billy Joe Shaver has never achieved the same level of fame as outlaw country peers like Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, but his songs were a significant part of the movement and were widely covered by stars ranging from Johnny Cash to Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan. A native Texan who lived the type of rough-and-tumble life that made his songs so appealing, Shaver was well into his thirties by the time he made his album debut. Eventually, 1973's Old Five and Dimers Like Me was known as a classic, but in the mid-'70s, songs like "Honky Tonk Heroes" and "Good Christian Soldier" were better known as hits for Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Strong releases later in his career bolstered Shaver's reputation as one of America's great unsung songmen; it's one of the great ironies that 2014's excellent Long in the Tooth marked his debut on the Billboard Country Albums chart.
Hometown
Corsicana, TX, United States
Genre
Country