Billy Joe Shaver

Billy Joe Shaver is a Texas country music singer and songwriter. Shavers 1973 album Old Five and Dimers Like Me is a classic in the outlaw country genre.

Shaver was born was in Corsicana, Texas, and raised by his mother, Victory Watson Shaver, his father Virgil having left the family before Billy Joe was born. Until he was 12, he spent a great deal of time with his grandmother in Corsicana, Texas so that his mother could work in Waco. He sometimes accompanied his mother to her job at a local nightclub, where he began to be exposed to country music.

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