Billy Joe Shaver (1939 – 2020)
Men don’t come more complicated than Billy Joe Shaver. On the surface he was often the classic teddy bear. Bubbling underneath that surface was a penchant for raising hell that often collided with one of the fiercest temper’s God ever placed on this earth. Billy Joe was born in Corsicana, TX and split his time between there and the Waco area for the bulk of his life. Raised mostly by his grandmother while his mother worked a series of menial jobs, Shaver quit school in the 8th grade and set out into a wide world as apprehensive of him as
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