Billy Joe Shaver

Bobby Bare at Paradise Mar 16, 1982

Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008

Listen to Bobby Bare performed at Paradise on March 16, 1982

Hey Dave; Does this Bio sound too familiar?

MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008

Billy Joe Shaver (He was born August 16 , 1939 in Corsicana, Texas ) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Shaver's 1973 album Old Five and Dimers Like Me is a classic in the outlaw country genre. [SOURCE] 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 grandmother...

Billy Joe Shaver Indicted

Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008

Country star Billy Joe Shaver has been indicted on aggravated assault and weapons charges in Texas for his part in a shooting incident in Lorena last year.[...] Read more!

Billy Joe Shaver on the Hook for Bar Shooting

E! Online (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008

There's nothing more country than a bar shooting... if it takes place in a Johnny Cash song, that is. Honkytonker Billy Joe Shaver has been charged with two felony counts of...

Billy Joe Shaver, Texas country music star, indicted in '07 bar shooting 8:11 AM CT

Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008

Shaver, 69, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony, and a charge of unlawful carrying of a handgun by a licensed holder on a licensed premises, a third-degree felony, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported in its online edition Wednesday.

Country star Shaver indicted in shooting

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008

A McLennan County grand jury has indicted country singer Billy Joe Shaver on felony charges for his alleged role in an April 2007 shooting at a Lorena bar. Shaver, 69, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony and a...

• Billy Joe Shaver indicted in 2007 Texas shooting - The Washington Times
• Billy Joe Shaver indicted in 2007 Texas shooting - Miami Herald
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Friday Random Ten: music to inspire ageing trail runners

Hugo Schwyzer (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008

Lots of old favorites here, and (with #7 and #8) a pair of newer tracks I’ve grown fond of. A note about #2: when I was first doing a little bit of internet dating, back in early 1999 on match.com, I remember listing that track as the one that best described my life. [...]

Beyonce Knowles' father Mathew heads to Fisk for lecture series

The Nashville Business Journal (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

Mathew Knowles, president and CEO of Music World Entertainment, is scheduled to speak at Fisk University at 3 p.m. Sept. 15 in the Fisk University Chapel.

Piano with a Southern accent

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008

Sit Chuck Leavell behind a piano, and the musical richness of the South comes to life.

• Piano with a Southern accent - kansascity.com

Bait Shop comes to USA Network Aug. 9

Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Bait Shop, the TV movie Bill Engvall, Billy Ray Cyrus, Harve Presnell and Billy Joe Shaver shot here last winter is on its way to USA cable. It'll be aired Aug. 9 at 9 p.m. Remember, it's sort of a...

POP QUIZ: EMMYLOU HARRIS

San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008

At 61, Emmylou Harris remains as busy as ever. She has just released her first new studio album in five years, "All I Intended to Be," which includes covers of songs by Billy Joe Shaver, Patty Griffin and Merle Haggard. In the meantime, Harris recorded an...

Sunday Crazy Redneck Music & Storytelling Blogging

Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008

Billy Joe Shaver is a member of a great sub-genre of country music, the Texas singer/songwriter, which includes Willie Nelson, Nanci Griffith, Joe Ely, Townes Van Zandt, and on and on. One of the best things to ever come out of that state besides Interstate 10. Being on the cusp of curmudgeonry my own self, I like this guy. I think this is a very slyly subversive song. See if you do too. Freedom's...

Willie Nelson's July 4th Picnic, Verizon Amphitheater

The SA Rocks Blog (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008

With Merle Haggard, Pat Green, Ray Price, Los Lonely Boys, Asleep at the Wheel, David Allan Coe, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billy Joe Shaver, Johnny Bush http://www.willienelson.com

VIDEO: Tim McGraw Flips Out & Ejects Tubby Cowboy From Gig

Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008

Country music is scientifically proven to turn people into violent, woman-beating drunks - or is it just that only violent wife-beating drunks like country music? Maybe we'll never know for sure, but let's forget the history for a moment and just laugh at the fat, allegedly woman-beating rednecks who go to country music concerts. Like the fat, allegedly woman-beating redneck who country star Tim McGraw...

Hayes Carll

Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008

A man by the name of Hayes Carll can only belong to one region: the South, where surnames are first names and a two-syllable limit abides.The 32-year-old Carll cut his teeth in the most southerly of southern points, near Galveston on Texas' sticky Gulf Coast. There, he encountered many of the w...