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 ...

Billy Joe Shaver's life has followed a rough road. He became famous in the 1970s as the songwriter for country music "outlaws" like Waylon Jennings. Many of his recent songs are heartbreaking, ...

Today, Billy Joe Shaver is hailed as a hero of the Outlaw Country movement by those in the know. Johnny Cash once called Shaver his favorite songwriter. Willie Nelson named him the “greatest living ...

If ever a singer had a right to release a bitter, dispirited, even defeated album, Billy Joe Shaver did. In the past 2 1/2 years, the 63-year-old Texan and outlaw country songwriting legend lost his ...

Billy Joe Shaver might just be the greatest country music songwriter you've never heard of. The native Texan started his songwriting career in Nashville, Tenn., in 1968, writing for Bobby Bare. Waylon ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Outlaw country singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, who wrote songs like "Honky Tonk Heroes," "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train" and "Old Five and Dimers Like Me," has died. He was ...

The 75-year-old, who helped pioneer the "outlaw" sound, is one of the most respected songwriters in country music. Decades after his big break,... Billy Joe Shaver Writes Country Songs — And Lives ...

Billy Joe Shaver is a notoriously feisty honky-tonk hero who helped define the 1970s outlaw-country movement with his songs about hell-raising and hard living. In some ways, Shaver hasn't changed much ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - UPDATE: A McLennan County jury has declared that Fred Fletcher, an Austin music producer and longtime friend of Billy Joe Shaver, is entitled to the estate of Country music singer ...