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	Compadre Records: Home
		Billy Joe Shaver is causing a media blitz with the anticipation of his upcoming Compadre release Everybody's Brother.
		Shaver’s attorney, Joe Turner, says the shooting was in self-defense, with Coker acting as the aggressor and brandishing a hunting knife; in the police report, Coker says the attack was unprovoked.
		Billy Joe Shaver recently stopped by the Lonestar 92.5fm studios in Dallas for a video taping of some of his greatest hits for Full Throttle Garage.
	www.compadrerecords.com (863 words)

	ROCKZONE.COM: Interviews: Billy Joe Shaver
		Billy Joe: Yeah, there was a connection there where I never had to worry about where he was going, and he never had to worry about where I was going, on stage especially.
		Billy Joe: Oh, well, what happened was that a guy came to interview me before the show that I didn't know about, and he asked me some really crazy questions.
		Billy Joe: Yeah, and I knew more from the ground up about what was going on, it wasn't all from books and things, not that there's anything wrong with that.
	www.rockzone.com /interviews/shaver.shtml (3023 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Ode to Billy Joe
		Billy Joe Shaver in "The Portrait of Billy Joe."
		Billy Joe Shaver lost his wife and his mom the same year his beloved son died of an overdose.
		Shaver, the original country music outlaw, is alluding to the fact that his mother, wife and only son have recently died, leaving him, at age 64, almost entirely alone.
	www.salon.com /ent/music/feature/2004/05/15/shaver (321 words)

	NPR : Billy Joe Shaver: Overcoming Heartbreaks
		Shaver grew up in Corsicana, Texas, and moved to Nashville in the late 1960s.
		When he was young, an English teacher encouraged Shaver to pursue his talent for poetry.
		Visit Billy Joe Shaver's official Web to see tour information and a list of his songs that have been recorded by other artists.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=934573 (530 words)

	VH1.com : Billy Joe Shaver : Biography
		Shaver did a quick turn in the Navy and worked a series of nowhere jobs (including the one in the sawmill) before trying his luck in Nashville.
		The latter was produced by Shaver with his son, Eddy, who has played on every Billy Joe record since Old Chunk of Coal (he also toured in Dwight Yoakam's band in the 1980s).
		Shaver toured regularly over the next couple of years, and recorded a live album for Zoo, Unshaven, in 1995, but was dropped by the label a year later.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/shaver_billy_joe/bio.jhtml (673 words)

	RelishNow \| Honky-tonk original Billy Joe Shaver high - on life
		Shaver is one of the most legendary singers and songwriters in Texas, a state that has produced a typically Lone-Star-size number of top-shelf songwriters.
		Shaver was along for the ride - he was "the boys" in "Waylon, Willie and the boys" - but his star didn't rise too far beyond the circle of first-call Texas songwriters.
		Shaver was on the verge of stardom in 1993 when he formed Shaver, a rambunctious honky-tonk quartet that featured son Eddy on flame-throwing guitar.
	www.journalnow.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031778491576&path=!entertainment!music&s=1037645508978 (923 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver on LoneStarMusic.com
		Billy Joe Shaver is one of the last living legends like Kris and Willie, that like so many who have gone before him, will not be fully appreciated until he gone to be with his wife, mother and son.
		Shaver recounts his long struggle to break into the music business in Nashville and the success that came when Waylon Jennings recorded his songs on the 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes, which became a landmark of outlaw country music.
		Shaver movingly describes his own thirty-year, up-and-down career as a singer-songwriter in Nashville and Texas, his bouts with alcohol and drugs, his pleasure in touring with his son Eddy and their band Shaver during the 1990s, and the pain of losing Eddy, Brenda, and Billy Joe's mother all within the year 1999-2000
	www.lonestarmusic.com /artists.asp?id=125 (391 words)

	RollingStone.com: Billy Joe Shaver : Shaver Sings Songs of "Freedom" : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		That was also Shaver's last recording featuring the honky tonk/hard rock guitar playing of his son Eddy, who died of a drug overdose on December 31, 2000.
		Shaver says the very first song recorded for the album, "That's Why the Man in Black Sings the Blues," was captured on the first take in what was actually a practice run.
		Because of its age, Shaver notes that the song is not specifically 9/11-themed, but nonetheless he believed it was topical enough to feel compelled to finally record it and get it out before the end of the year.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/5933406 (792 words)

	FOXNews.com - Country Singer Billy Joe Shaver Released on Bail in Bar Shooting - Celebrity Gossip \| Entertainment News ...
		Shaver turned himself in at the McLennan County jail in Waco and was released after posting $50,000 bail, said Lorena Police Chief John Moran.
		Shaver, 67, was charged with an assault and a weapons charge.
		Turner said that Shaver did not know the man and that the stranger was drunk, aggressive and had a knife.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,263487,00.html (638 words)

	Rockzillaworld Billy Joe Shaver "Try And Try Again" By Marianne Ebertowski
		Billy Joe, the father, is proud of Eddy, even if "the kid" doesn't particularly seem to appreciate his father's "cowboy stuff." He wants to play his electric guitar as loud and fast as possible, and when he does, the audience loves him for it.
		Billy Joe off stage is just as impressive as he is as a performer.
		However, in his native Texas Shaver, the cowboy poet with "a good Christian raisin' and an eighth grade education," continues to prove that he is in great musical shape.
	www.rockzilla.net /ebertowski40.html (1053 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver: A Commentary
		So I searched "Billy Joe Shaver" and found Griffin Myers' Shaver Tribute page and this led to my first concert and then to a brand new Shaver newsgroup, which I am proud to say I was one of the first few people to join.
		Billy Joe Shaver was created by God and tempered by the consequences of his life.
		Billy Joe Shaver is often credited, along with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, as the innovator and torchbearer of Outlaw Country Music.
	www.misslana.com /sully/bjs.html (2494 words)

	Music: Billy Joe Shaver
		An acoustic collection of spiritual songs that Billy Joe has written over the years, it's a family album of sorts - the title of the disc is his mother's name.
		Shaver has been known for speaking the truth to the common man for decades, but won't dare call himself a poet.
		Shaver spent some time in the Navy, and after he was discharged he worked a series of dead-end jobs (including the one in the saw mill) before heading out on the road.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol17/issue49/music.shaver.html (2090 words)

	Book review: Billy Joe Shaver's 'Honky Tonk Hero' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Billy Joe Shaver's lyrics – which comprise the bulk of the book 'Honky Tonk Hero' – mirror the tough life of the country-music icon.
		Not surprisingly, Shaver's hard-knock life ("I was not even born yet when my father first tried to kill me," he begins) makes for compelling reading in "Honky Tonk Hero," a corker of a tale as ripe for big screen adaptation as Ray Charles' or Johnny Cash's.
		But readers less familiar with Shaver's music — particularly the adrenaline-charged albums he made with Eddy in the '90s — will be left in the dark as to how much father and son came to depend on each other, as much best friends as family.
	www.austin360.com /music/content/music/statesman/2005/20billyjoeshaver.html (1111 words)

	Amazon.com: Billy and the Kid: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Those already familiar with Billy Joe Shaver's music and the tragic tale of how he lost his mother, his wife, and his only son in the same year will not be surprised that Billy Joe has returned to pay tribute to his son and collaboarator, Eddy Shaver.
		Eddy Shaver's death from a drug overdose on New Year's Eve 2000 may not have been a shock to those familiar with "the kid." He'd battled various addictions for years and turned to heroin after the deaths of his mother and grandmother earlier that year.
		Shaver, like Cash or Willie, is a member of a small group of performers that can put a stamp of ownership on any song they choose.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002LNGXU?v=glance (1482 words)

	Class Act Entertainment:\|:Jeff White
		As a living lightning rod for the blues, Billy Joe Shaver is one rough 'n' rowdy Texan who's experienced more than enough joy and pain in his sixty-three years to ever have to go begging for material.
		Billy Joe's never been a stranger to hard knocks (many, to be sure, self-inflicted), but the past few years have been brutal.
		Following the loss of his wife and his mother less than a month apart to cancer, he--with the aid of his guitarist son Eddy--wrote and recorded The Earth Rolls On, an extraordinarily gripping exploration of guilt, regret, devotion, love and redemption that was roundly acclaimed as one of 2001's finest works.
	www.classactentertainment.com /artists/JeffWhite.html (1076 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver-Freedom's Child
		Billy Joe is also joined by young rascal Todd Snider, a friend who co-wrote "Deja Blues".
		Shaver's voice is silky and rough at the same time.
		Shaver may be 63, but he can still belt 'em out with the best.
	www.misslana.com /odie/freedomchild.htm (826 words)

	Amazon.com: Freedom's Child: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Though Shaver's songs are better known than he is, his records, particularly in the last decade, have been every bit as good as the classic outlaw discs he helped pen.
		Billy Joe's wife passed away, as did his mother, and perhaps most distressing of all, his son Eddy died of a drug overdose at the end of 2000.
		Shaver's fans, along with those of the original outlaws, and listeners who wandered in through the alt.country and Americana doors should all give this a spin or three.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000075A0N?v=glance (1560 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver - Entertainment
		Billy Joe Shaver is one of those great country songwriters who deserves a tip of the old hat from the youngsters, but his latest album "Freedom's Child" sure doesn't show it.
		Neo-country performers pay homage to songwriters who (for the most part) have made their contribution and moved on, but Billy Joe Shaver is still out there living the life - he is a road-weary veteran of the rise and fall of the marketability of cowboy heartbreak.
		However, if you're a bit nostalgic yourself for the old sounds of Willie and Waylon, pick up a copy of Billy Joe Shaver's "Freedom's Child." If you'd prefer to pay your respects and move on, it might be best to skip it.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /media/paper410/news/2003/07/07/Entertainment/Billy.Joe.Shaver-493128.shtml (321 words)

	Modern Guitars Magazine: Billy Joe Shaver Named Texas State Musician
		Country music legend Billy Joe Shaver was named Texas State Musician as the Texas Commission on the Arts has announced its appointments to the positions of state poet laureate, state musician, state two-dimensional artist and state three-dimensional artist.
		Billy Joe Shaver is presently touring on the heels of his Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver — Live (Compadre Records), released last week.
		Shaver is presently in the studio completing a new studio album due for September release.
	www.modernguitars.com /archives/000791.html (699 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The outlaw Billy Joe Shaver sat at the end of the bar nursing a bottle -- of Poland Spring -- and eating a steak.
		His right hand shook a little as he sliced, compensating for the first and second fingers, which are lost at the knuckles and make him a fairly unusual rhythm guitarist.
		Touring behind Shaver's third CD, the new all-acoustic Victory (New West), Billy Joe stripped Shaver to the essentials a week ago Wednesday: himself and hotshot guitarist Eddy.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/11/26/rex/billy_joe_shaver.html (319 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Billy Joe Shaver lingered decades in the shadows while Nashville's outlaw stars -- especially Waylon Jennings -- covered his weather-beaten, confessional songs.
		On "Good News Blues," Billie Joe snarls with unabashed orneriness, "My old gal left me and I'm glad she took the kid." Yet there's soft charm and soul searching, too.
		The line in "Georgia on a Fast Train," about underdog Billy Joe's mother deserting him at birth, is gospel truth.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/01-11-96/OTR/BILLY_JOE_SHAVER.html (205 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver Reviews
		Fellow songwriters shower their love on Billy Joe Shaver throughout this concert recording from his 65th birthday bash in Austin.
		As Joe Ely suggests, no one has found "a way of combining the spiritual and the honky-tonk" quite like Billy Joe.
		Billy Joe Shaver has endured a chain of traumas that would have sunk lesser beings.
	www.iq451.com /music/billy-joe-shaver.htm (656 words)

	Walmart.com - Music Downloads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Shaver was raised in Waco, Texas, and lost two fingers in a sawmill accident.
		Shaver hated live performances and he fell prey to ulcers, alcoholism and drug-addiction, so much so that an album for MGM Records was never made.
		Billy Joe's first album following that tragedy was released in 2002, and Freedom's Child proved to be a powerful and revealing collection.
	musicdownloads.walmart.com /catalog/servlet/AlbumServlet;jsessionid=?id=60881 (496 words)

	Austin Downtown Arts
		Shaver, the bard lion, clawed into the depths of his heart.
		But Billy Joe lifted the mood and the whoops, wilding up his hair for "Woman is the Wonder of the World" and reached epiphany with his spirituals, "You Can't Beat Jesus Christ" and "I'm in Love."
		Billy Joe Shaver had just been singing odes to Jesus, many of the crowd sang along.
	www.diversearts.org /archive/v7n3/lion.html (901 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver : Victory - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		A man of strong spiritual conviction, Shaver has lived a life that often put him in conflict with his religious beliefs.
		Working with his talented son, Eddy Shaver, who co-produced this first-ever release from New West Records, has given Shaver a renewed sense of himself and his place in the music industry.
		Satisfying and potent, Billy Joe and Eddy Shaver continue to walk their own path to victory.
	www.artistdirect.com /store/artist/album/0,,358919,00.html (260 words)

	Rockzilla.net Billy Joe Shaver by Michael Johnson
		Billy Joe came in a little later and the crowd whooped and hollered.
		The drummer was late and there were some of Lone Star's trademark sound problems but Billy kicked it off with an opening number with Eddy on acoustic guitar, and then left Eddy to do a couple of his own songs while he went to park his truck.
		Once, between numbers, Billy, swigging on a bottle of Evian, is looking at the big screen TV, oddly left on during the show, watching a report on Lance Armstrong's Tour de France progress.
	www.rockzilla.net /rockzilla5.html (658 words)

	Roots66: Music: Reviews: Billy Joe Shaver: Freedom's Child
		Billy Joe Shaver has been around for a while and it shows in his music and his voice.
		Billy Joe has lived life or maybe life has lived him.
		Shaver starts things off with "Hold Onto Yours (I'll Hold On to Mine)", an exploration of the importance of individuality in a relationship.
	www.roots66.com /roots66/music/reviews/freedomschild.shtml (838 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver Boasts Banner Year After Tragedy - Readies A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver' with Guests Robert Earl ...
		When we announced Billy Joe Shaver’s most recent studio album, Billy and the Kid (August 2004), it was couched in the context of tragedy.
		The artists each sing one Shaver or Shaver-inspired song and offer their spoken testimonials on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
		A portion of the proceeds from A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver – Live will be donated to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/2/emw212817.htm (673 words)

	Billy Joe Shaver: 'The Real Deal' \| News @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
		Five years ago, Billy Joe Shaver’s life was marked by tragedy, death and his own failing health.
		Shaver is truly one of the most respected living figures in American music today.
		Shaver will tour the U.S. (as well as every town in Texas) from the summer months well into the fall.
	www.ultimate-guitar.com /news/upcoming_releases/billy_joe_shaver_the_real_deal.html (655 words)

	NPR : Country Music's Billy Joe Shaver: A 'Honky Tonk Hero'
		Fresh Air from WHYY, July 13, 2005 · Billy Joe Shaver's life has followed a rough road.
		A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver -- an album with live performances by Joe Ely, Dale Watson and Jimmie Dale Gilmore -- was released recently.
		Shaver discusses his life and career -- and performs some of his songs.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4751907 (218 words)

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