Billy Joe Shaver performs at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum during the Americana Music Festival in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sep. 20, 2014. Rick Diamond/Getty Images
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Outlaw country singer songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, who wrote songs like “Honky Tonk Heroes,” “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” and “Old Five and Dimers Like Me,” has died. He was 81.
His friend Connie Nelson said he died Wednesday in Texas following a stroke.
