Billy Joe Shaver Bass Player

He suffered a stoke at ascension providence hospital in waco texas.

Billy joe shaver bass player. Shaver was born in corsicana texas and raised by his mother victory watson shaver. Shaver s songs have been recorded by everybody from bobby bare and johnny paycheck kris. Though he made it through the surgery initially calhoun passed away after the procedure due to a aortic aneurysm. Shaver s songs are better known than.

Billy joe shaver s beloved bass player tony calhoun has passed away. Oroginally from waco tx he passed away friday 11 15 in austin due to complications from heart surgery. Big smile big sense of humor and one heck of a master of the lower register he put the mustard on billy joe shaver s outlaw style of country music for the last few years. Tony was 65 years old.

Until he was 12 he spent a great deal of time with his grandmother in corsicana so that his mother could work in waco he sometimes accompanied his mother to her job at a local nightclub where he began to be exposed to country music. Billy joe shaver the texas singer songwriter who was a key player in the outlaw country movement died this morning october 28 2020 following an illness.