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We have a resident country music expert here at NPR: our national political correspondent Don Gonyea. He was telling me recently about a musician named Billy Joe Shaver, whom he'd discovered about 20 ...

After a 50-year music career, country singer Billy Joe Shaver is still relatively unknown, but not to some of America's greatest songwriters. Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan have recorded his songs.

WACO, Texas -- Billy Joe Shaver, an outlaw country music firebrand known for a string of hits and a career that spanned decades, has died after suffering a stroke, according to Rolling Stone. Shaver's ...

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HUNTER, Tex. — A tall, stern-faced man with his arms crossed is standing in front of the stage and Billy Joe Shaver has had enough. He wraps up “Wacko From Waco,” a song he wrote about — true story — ...

Billy Joe Shaver, a masterful songwriter and near-mythic character in outlaw country, died Wednesday at age 81. Shaver died after complications from a stroke in Waco, Texas, according to a Rolling ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Country music songwriting icon Billy Joe Shaver, the self-styled “old chunk of coal,” predicted in one of his most popular songs that “I’m gonna be a diamond one day.” It remains ...

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