Throughout 40-year career, Billy Joe Shaver Shaver has released 15 albums. Five-time Grammy award nominee, Songwriter Lifetime Achievement Award from the AMA and Member of Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame his songs have been recorded by Elvis, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Tom Petty among others.
Producer on Shaver's 2007 release Everybody's Brother is John Carter Cash. Shaver wrote for Johnny Cash's publishing company in the late 1970s, and this CD features the Cash/Shaver duet You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ recorded during those years.
Other guests include country music starts Kris Kristofferson, Tanya Tucker, John Anderson, Marty Stuart, Randy Scruggs, and Native American singer/songwriter Bill Miller.
Shaver has suffered extraordinary loss during his life: he was abandoned at birth by his mother, raised by grandmother, quit school in 8th grade, lost three fingers at 21 in saw mill accident, joined the Navy, married five times to two different women, his mother, wife, and son all died within a year and a half. Regardless, he maintains a positive outlook thanks to his faith.
- Rolling Stone
- Get Thee Behind Me Satan w/ John Anderson
- When I Get My Wings
- Most Precious
- Winning Again w/ Marty Stuart
- No Earthly Good w/ Kris Kristofferson
- If You Don't Love Jesus
- To Be Loved By a Woman
- The Tough Get Going
- The Greatest Man Alive
- Played the Game Too Long w/ Tanya Tucker
- You'll Always Be My Best Friend
- Jesus Is the Only One That Loves Us w/ John Anderson
- Everybody's Brother w/ Bill Miller
- You Just Can't Beat Jesus Christ w/ Johnny Cash