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When did Billy Joe Shaver start making music?
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Billy Joe Shaver's first song “Serious Souls” released in 1973.
Billy Joe Shaver is a Texas singer-songwriter and an outlaw country icon. His 1973 album Old Five and Dimers Like Me remains a classic, and Waylon Jennings' career-defining Honky Tonk Heroes released the same year includes many of the same songs as Shaver wrote or co-wrote 11 of the 12 tracks on the album. Shaver’s biography is full of legend... Read More
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