Billy Joe Shaver News

Billy Joe Shaver's most recent album was 2007's "Everybody's Brother." Shaver is set to play at The Back Porch Bar in Port Aransas Saturday and The House of Rock in Corpus Christi on Sunday.

Texas icon Billy Joe Shaver will appear for one show only at Jake's at Pipe Creek, 12246 Highway 16 South, Friday, July 10, offering country music lovers an unforgettable evening of entertainment.

Live updates: Read live updates from Jennifer at Barrelhouse Beat. PRYOR, Okla. -- It's 91 degrees outside, but my thermometer tells me it feels more like 105 degrees out here.

Here's a whole mess of cliches coming together, which is appropriate since we're talking country radio, where the cliches are revered and preserved like Jurassic Park brontosaurs.

The return of Billy Joe Corsicana-born country-rock legend Billy Joe Shaver, right, whose songs have been recorded by Elvis Presley, Kris Kristofferson and the Allman Brothers in his 40-plus-year career and who was the subject of the 2004 documentary The Portrait of Billy Joe , plays in North Texas at 8 tonight at the Longhorn Saloon, 121 W.

Derrick Days 2009 is "good to go." That was the proclamation Tuesday by Brad Haynie, Derrick Days chairman, as the celebration's committee held its final meeting before the start of festivities today.

Fans of guitars and fiddles will get their annual gift from WKCR this coming weekend when the station rolls out its Country Music Festival.

Billy Joe Shaver, the man Willie Nelson has said "may be the best songwriter alive today," will retrace the path he took as a poor, share-cropping boy riding loads of cotton into Corsicana in the 1940s, when he is honored as the Grand Marshal of the 2009 Derrick Days Parade on Derrick Days Saturday, April 25.

I drive to Austin at least every two weeks during the legislative session to serve on a committee that represents the state's two press associations.

Those of us who have come to reside upstairs in the Continental Club building at 3700-3718 Main - half a block long, 70 or so feet high, built in the late '20s - have a more-or-less informal nickname for the ...

The best news in country music for 2008 emanated from Taylor Swift , the keen teen who became America's sweetheart while selling more records and gracing more magazine covers than anyone else in the hillbilly ...

Just spoke with Lisa Endicott, who runs press for The Granada Theater, and she verified that the Billy Joe Shaver / Jesse Dayton concert that was to take place this Friday is canceled.

Jerry Jeff Walker is strongly associated with the progressive country scene that centered around Austin, Texas, in the 1970s and included such figures as Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, the Lost ...

Get ready. The country music festival in Pryor each year has changed formats - sort of.