Rolling Stone : Shaver

Article : Shaver Guitarist Dead at Thirty-Eight

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:00:00 PST

When John Edwin (Eddy) Shaver was born thirty-eight years ago, on June 20, 1962, his father -- famed Texas singer/songwriter Billy Joe Shaver -- wanted to name him "Electric." Thankfully, Billy Joe's father-in-law adamantly refused to let it happen.

"If he had done that," Eddy Shaver told RollingStone.com in a 1999 interview, "I'd probably be an accountant or something."

Instead, Shaver became a guitarist and followed in his father's musical footsteps, though he took a different path --...

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Thu, 07 Dec 2000 08:33:51 PST

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Article : Shaver and Son's "Electric" Roar

Wed, 05 May 1999 12:00:00 PDT

As arguably one of the best outlaw songwriters to ever come out of Texas -- a state that breeds them like jackrabbits -- Billy Joe Shaver can tell a story like nobody's business.| Many of them have found their way into songs; others he repeats like treasured oral folklore. There's the one about how he used to hang out in the honky tonk where his mother waitressed as a child, transfixed by the Jimmie Rodgers on the jukebox. Or the one where he lost half the fingers on one hand in a sawmill accide...

Article : Shaver and Son's "Electric" Roar

Tue, 04 May 1999 12:00:00 PDT

As arguably one of the best outlaw songwriters to ever come out of Texas -- a state that breeds them like jackrabbits -- Billy Joe Shaver can tell a story like nobody's business. Many of them have found their way into songs; others he repeats like treasured oral folklore. There's the one about how he used to hang out in the honky tonk where his mother waitressed as a child, transfixed by the Jimmie Rodgers on the jukebox. Or the one where he lost half the fingers on one hand in a sawmill acciden...