“He had a command of Texas lingo, his world as down to earth and real as the day is long, and he wore his Lone Star birthright like a badge. “Billy Joe talked the way a modern cowboy would speak, if he stepped out of the West and lived today,” Waylon Jennings wrote of Shaver, according to Variety. Born in Valdosta, Georgia, and raised in Marietta, Georgia, Royal became a local star at the Bamboo Ranch in Savannah in the 1950s and 1960s. Shaver dropped out of high school, married and divorced one woman three times, another woman twice, had a heart attack on stage, shot a man in the face outside a bar (for which he claimed self-defense and was acquitted), lost chunks of three fingers in a sawmill accident and lost his son to a heroin overdose. Died 6 October 2015 (aged 73) Billy Joe Royal (Ap October 6, 2015) was an American pop and country singer. Stories from his personal life were also prolific in their own right. He was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006, received the Americana Music Association’s lifetime achievement award for songwriting in 2002, wrote a memoir in 2005 called “Honky Tonk Hero,” had a cameo in the 1998 Robert Duvall film “The Apostle,” was the subject of a 2004 documentary called “The Portrait of Billy Joe,” and in all recorded 17 studio albums, most recently 2014’s “Long in the Tooth.” Billy Joe Shaver was one of outlaw country music’s little-known but highly influential stars. Hall, Patty Loveless, Doug Kershaw, Johnny Paycheck and Jerry Lee Lewis, according to Variety. The singer and songwriter had a penchant for writing tracks which other, more well-known country artists recorded, including “Live Forever” - which country supergroup the Highwaymen recorded in 1995 - and other numbers covered by Elvis Presley, David Allan Coe, Tom T. He rose to further prominence after Kris Kristofferson recorded his song “Good Christian Soldier.” The Texas native became a name in country music with his 1973 debut album, “Old Five and Dimers Like Me,” now a classic of the outlaw country genre that emerged in response to country music’s commercialization at the time. Shaver died of a stroke at Waco, Texas’ Ascension Providence Hospital, Variety reported. Legendary radio DJ dies after catching pneumoniaīilly Joe Shaver, a contributor to the 1970s “outlaw country” movement and the man Willie Nelson once called “the greatest living songwriter,” passed away Wednesday. 'Harry Potter' stars honor beloved Hagrid actor Robbie Coltraneįrom 'Mame' to 'Sweeney Todd,' Angela Lansbury was a Broadway goddess Graveside services will be held at Woodlawn at 12 noon on Friday, March 24, 2017.Former NFL cornerback killed in bar shooting She was preceded in death by both parents and two sisters, Karen Rudisel and Lisa Sims. Also surviving are two sisters of Terre Haute, Shirley Frakes and her husband Rick and Linda Daugherty and her husband Steve and one brother, Kenny Sims and his wife Melissa of Terre Haute. He graduated from Belvidere High School in 1965. He was born on Decemin Belvidere, IL, son of Lavern and Dorothy Pierce. She was the proud grandmother of two precious little girls, Merryjane Royal and Arionnah Clark. James Leroy Pierce, 67, passed away on Jin his own home in Belvidere, IL. She is survived by her three sons, Byron Joe Royal and his wife Amy, Billy Royal of Butlerville and Daniel Royal of North Vernon. She lived in the Terre Haute area, working for Dollar General in Seelyville for quite some time and later relocating to North Vernon and Butlerville. She went on to marry Byron Royal and together they had three sons. She attended Bible Baptist Private School. Growing up Merryjane spent most of her free time roller skating and overnight with best friend. She was born March 10, 1967, to Billy Joe Sims and Mary Ann Sims of Terre Haute. Merryjane Royal, 51, of Butlerville, Ind., passed away unexpectedly March 15, 2017.
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