The country music community is mourning the passing ... devastated Travis Tritt shared his heartbreak on social media. Billy Joe Walker Jr. coproduced or played guitar on nearly every album ...

But I like to imagine that the music was goaded ... As pillars of the outlaw-country movement (and its 21st-century rebranding as Americana), Jerry Jeff Walker and Billy Joe Shaver were remarkably ...

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After a prolific career in Nashville, producer, songwriter and musician Billy Joe Walker ... has not been specified. Walker Jr. taught himself to play guitar and read music as a child and, at ...

Jerry Jeff Walker and Billy Joe Shaver. Walker wrote some of country music’s funniest, most heartbreaking songs, including 1968’s “Mr. Bojangles.” Shaver pioneered outlaw country ...

Billy Walker, 77, the long-time Grand Ole Opry ... officials said. The country music band was on its way back to the Nashville area after performing near Gulf Shores, Ala., said Tom Bowers ...

“You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone,” Billy ... Jeff Walker died at 78 after a long bout with cancer. Both men were influential songwriters and personalities of the outlaw country movement ...

Billy Joe Shaver, the outlaw country music legend once praised by Willie Nelson as “the greatest living songwriter,” has died at the age of 81, according to Rolling Stone.He suffered a fatal ...

But Shaver wasn’t trying to cure country music. He just wrote songs, the best he could think of. No wonder Bob Dylan declared, in a 2009 song, that “I’m listening to Billy Joe Shaver and I ...

Outside of country music, Shaver briefly appeared in the 1996 Robert Duvall film The Apostle and in 2004, a documentary about Shaver, A Portrait of Billy Joe, was released. He then detailed his ...