BillyJoeShaver

Billy Joe Shaver is one of the most influential songwriters in the modern history of country music. His songs have been cut by everyone from Elvis Presley to Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash, and Waylon Jennings' landmark 1973 album 'Honky Tonk Heroes' consists almost entirely of tracks he wrote...

Celebrated singer-songwriter Wade Bowen's 15th annual celebrity golf tournament and concert set a new record this year. The 2013 Wade Bowen Classic raised nearly a quarter of a million dollars to benefit in the rebuilding of the shattered community of West, Texas after the fertilizer company explosion that devastated the town on April 17...

Rick Diamond, Getty Images When you've got a concert event titled "Rebels and Renegades: the Outlaws Are IN," you'd expect such iconic artists as Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver and Kris Kristofferson to take the stage.

Frederick Breedon, Getty Images People seem to quibble quite a bit about what constitutes country music, but no matter your definition, it was represented in Nashville Tuesday night (April 16).

Willie Nelson will celebrate the re-opening of his Texas Hill Country 9-hole golf course to the public on June 30, by hosting the 1st Annual Celebrity Golf Tournament at the Pedernales Cut N Putt Golf Club in Briarcliff, Texas. The tournament will benefit four central Texas charities: Pedernales Fire Department, Helping Hands Ministries of Spicewood, the Children's Music Foundation of Austin, and

Erika Goldring Jamey Johnson and Billy Joe Shaver have signed on to perform at this year's Farm Aid benefit concert, which will take place at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park in Kansas City, Mo. on August 13. The acclaimed singer-songwriters join an already star-studded line-up, including Dave Mathews, Jason Mraz, Jakob Dylan, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Robert Francis, Will Dailey & the R

Singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver is recovering from minor heart surgery, including undergoing a stent procedure on Monday (July 12). The Austin American-Statesman reports that Billy Joe canceled three scheduled July shows due to chest pain, including an appearance at Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic last week...

At 70 years old, legendary singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver has earned a good bit of the 'outlaw' tag placed on him. Even as recently as a couple of months ago, he was acquitted on an aggravated assault charge stemming from a 2007 shooting incident in the parking lot of a Lorena, Texas bar...

Billy Joe Shaver wants his bullet back --- and he's not kidding. In a YouTube video, the 70-year old singer-songwriter talks to a crowd at the Firehouse Saloon in Houston, just hours after he was acquitted on a charge of aggravated assault stemming from a 2007 shooting in Lorena, Texas...

"I knew in my heart we would win," said Billy Joe Shaver, according to the Austin American-Statesman, as he stepped outside of a Texas courthouse last week. A McLennan Country jury in Waco, Texas, acquitted the singer/songwriter of aggravated assault in the shooting of a man outside a bar in 2007...