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Billy Joe Shaver is tagged as: country, singer-songwriter, outlaw country, americana, classic country

Billy Joe Shaver is an American country music singer/songwriter. He was born August 16, 1939 in Corsicana, Texas. 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, after his father Virgil left the family before he was born. Until he was 12, he spent a great deal of time with his grandmother in Waco, Texas so that his mother could work. He sometimes accompanied his mother to her job at a local nightclub, where he began to be exposed to country music.[1]
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.[2]
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, Shaver 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.[3]
Shaver took a job at a lumber mill to make ends meet. One day his right hand (his dominant hand) became caught i...
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Top 10 Billy Joe Shaver Songs
Georgia on a Fast Train
Live Forever
Old Chunk of Coal
Black Rose
Try And Try Again
Freedom's Child
Honky Tonk Heroes
That's What She Said Last Night
You Asked Me To
I Been To Georgia on a Fast Train
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Top 10 Billy Joe Shaver Albums
Tramp on Your Street
Freedom's Child
Old Five and Dimers Like Me
Try and Try Again
Restless Wind: The Legendary Billy Joe Shaver 1973-1987
Salt of the Earth
Greatest Hits
Everybody's Brother
Billy And The Kid
The Real Deal
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