Billy Joe Shaver overview
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If I Give My Soul(04:36)
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Oklahoma Wind(04:33)
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The Real Deal(03:26)
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Freedom's Child(03:48)
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Good Ol' U.S.A.(03:05)
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Black Rose(02:20)
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Live Forever(03:51)
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When the Fallen Angels Fly(03:40)
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Georgia on a Fast Train(04:06)
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Old Chunk of Coal(02:37)
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Try and Try Again(03:40)
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Billy Joe Shaver bio
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 grandmoth... er 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 t Full bioRead more
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