Billy Joe Shaver: The Unstoppable Spirit of a Country Music Outlaw
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Billy Joe Shaver’s journey through country music was as heroic as it was iconic. Known across the heartlands and music halls of America as the bona fide “Honky Tonk Hero,” Shaver’s life and songs are stitched into the fabric of country music history. Raised by his mother in Corsicana, Texas, and later by his grandmother, Shaver’s early exposure to the honky tonk world his mother worked in perhaps predestined him for a …