Active from 1973 right up to his 2020 passing, Billy Joe Shaver was a stranger to the charts but was beloved by his cult audience and other country musicians. The musicians included Kris ...

“Live Forever” by Billy Joe Shaver After Outlaw Country ... Instead, he wrote it after the death of his son, Eddy Shaver. Eddy actually wrote the music for the song. Then, after his death ...

Yet the Kinkster had a tender side, too. Poet of Motel 6, his evocative posthumous album, finds Friedman confronting death with humor and gentleness in tunes like “See You Down the Highway” and the ...

The wind cut through Georgetown’s San Gabriel Park like a knife for Two Step Inn on Sunday. Texans bundled up to bear temps that dropped to low 50s.

When the DJ paused the music so fans could fill in words to ... wore a silver cross necklace and a Billy Joe Shaver shirt. Like old times, the mic stand was adorned with an American flag.

Yet the ample doses of humor — the wrenching title track, a tribute to his dear friend Billy Joe Shaver, ends with a ... flourishes of mariachi and folk music, plays a bit like an elegy for ...