Willie Nelson & Billy Joe Shaver at the Lakehouse, Spicewood, TX

Willie & Billy Joe, from the “Wacko from Waco”, recording sessions.

In 2007, he was charged with shooting a man in the face at a bar near his home in Waco, Texas (he was acquitted by a jury, pleading self-defense). “I am very sorry about the incident,” Shaver said outside the courtroom. “Hopefully things will work out where we become friends enough so that he gives me back my bullet.”

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Taken at home in Spicewood, Texas.

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