Kilalang Singer-Songwriter Pumanaw Na

 Although he regularly played gigs through his final years, Shaver’s greatest success came as a songwriter. 

Billy Joe Shaver, a significant figure in the bandit nation development of the 1970s, kicked the bucket Wednesday in the wake of enduring a stroke at his home in Waco, Texas. Shaver's companion Connie Nelson affirmed his demise to Rolling Stone. He was 81. Despite the fact that he routinely played gigs through his last years, Shaver's most prominent achievement came as a musician. He wrote a couple of hits as a Nashville staff author during the 1960s yet seethed against the limits of the Music City, so he made a beeline for his local Texas where he ended up at the focal point of the blossoming reformist nation development.

His reputation was made when Waylon Jennings devoted the bulk of his 1973 album “Honky Tonk Heroes” to Shaver compositions, including “Black Rose” and “Old Five and Dimers (Like Me).” The latter doubled as the title track for Shaver’s Kris Kristofferson-produced 1973 debut for Monument Records, but his career as a performer was plagued by reckless behavior and excessive drinking. He nevertheless cultivated a loyal cult following that included a number of his peers; Willie Nelson once claimed “Billy Joe is definitely the best writer in Texas” and Bob Dylan dropped his name in a 2009 song called “I Feel A Change Comin’ On.”

 Although he regularly played gigs through his final years, Shaver’s greatest success came as a songwriter.