Outlaw Country Artist Billy Joe Shaver Dead at 81

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.