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The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver
Elizabeth Cook
"I didn’t grow up in most literate of cultures coming from the Deep South, so Billy Joe was someone to aspire to be. My mother, who was a singer-songwriter, used to [perform] “Old Five and Dimers (Like Me).” He must have been struck by lightning. He writes poetry in a way that only he can."
- Elizabeth Cook from Live Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver
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