Billy Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver (August 16, 1939-October 28, 2020) was one of the original outlaws and maverick country singers in the 1970s, writing songs for Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Bobby Bare, Kris Kristofferson, and Bob Dylan. Similarly, his guitar playing was hard scrabbled; Shaver had lost parts of two fingers in a sawmill accident as a young man.
Billy Joe Shaver
Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934-October 25, 2020), an author, activist, and teacher, was one of the Beats’ last remaining members and one of the few women writers in the Beat movement. Moving to California, while raising five children, di Prima studied Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sanskrit, and alchemy. She told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2014 that “Memoirs of a Beatnik” was just a part of her life that she magnified, writing the book to benefit a 14-room group in Haight-Ashbury on Oak Street.
Diane Di Prima
