He didn’t get involved in music seriously until he was nearly 30, and it’s partly due to a lumber mill accident he suffered back in the 60’s when he severed off a good portion of two fingers and parts of two others when his right hand got hung up in a piece of machinery. Talk about tough and gritty, Billy Joe Shaver has the scars to prove it. Getting Four Fingers Lopped Off At A Lumber Mill His whole Green Gables childhood experience was later recapped in the song “Honky Tonk Heroes” that became the title track of Waylon Jennings’ famous 1973 album featuring all Billy Joe Shaver songs except for one.Ģ. According to Waylon Jennings, “She was a good-looking woman, red-headed and tough, and it was a classic dive, a dance hall with sawdust on the floor, spittoons, and a piano in the corner.” Billy Joe would run around the place bumming nickels from soldiers from nearby Fort Hood, and by the time he got a little older was known as quite a dancer and ladies man. Left to fend for herself, Shaver’s mother would leave him with his grandmother in Corsicana so she could work in honky tonks in Waco, but sometimes the young, impressionable Shaver would accompany his mother to the big town.įor a while Shaver’s mom ran a Waco honky tonk called Green Gables. Shaver was born in Corsicana, TX, and his dad left his mom before he was even born. If Billy Joe Shaver is anything, he’s the real deal, and as cliché as it may sound, his life was like a country song if there ever was one. Here’s 10 Badass moments from Billy Joe Shaver.ġ. When you have Elvis cutting one of your songs, Willie Nelson calling you his favorite songwriter, have Bob Dylan name dropping you, and had none other than Waylon Jennings record an entire album of your work, there’s no doubt you’re a badass. Though he may have never received the recognition of Willie, Waylon, or even Coe or Paycheck, his influence is arguably just important. You can’t go long talking about badasses in country music without bringing up the one, the only Billy Joe Shaver.
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