Billy Joe Shaver would make a great wingman. He's seen more honky-tonks than a beer distributor and, even at 73, he can handle himself in a bar fight. Billy Joe Shaver would make a great wingman. He’s ...

Billy Joe Shaver invented outlaw country music, so why is he still rambling around Texas in a van? This is life at Shaver's roadshow. Musically, the narrative stretches across a half-century, from the ...

The history of country music is full of greats who use two first names. There’s Gary P. Nunn and David Allan Coe, Jerry Jeff Walker and Willis Alan Ramsey, Ray Wylie Hubbard and even (ahem) Billy Ray ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Life as country music outlaw comes with certain expectations. Billy Joe Shaver lived up to his by going on trial, at age 70, on an aggravated-assault charge stemming from a 2007 ...

Willie Nelson, George Strait, Miranda Lambert and more are among the top country artists who have joined together on a new album in tribute to the music and legacy of a true country music renegade.

Kimberly Kelly is a country music singer on the rise from Lorena, so of course she's in Austin for first-ever CMT Music Awards in Texas. We caught up with Kelly on the aqua carpet before the awards, ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Country music songwriting icon Billy Joe Shaver, the self-styled “old chunk of coal,” predicted in one of his most popular songs that “I’m gonna be a diamond one day.” It remains ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A McLennan County judge has denied a request from Texas music legend Willie Nelson’s nephew to throw out a 2003 will from Billy Joe Shaver that purports to leave the songwriting ...

Billy Joe Shaver didn't live forever, but his music will carry on. The legendary Texas songwriter, who died in October 2020 at age 81, is getting first-class tribute treatment from New West Records, ...