death_date label article_title name birth_date background instrument genre origin birth_name
28 april 1988 rca b. w. stevenson
 b. w. stevenson october 5 , 1949 solo_singer guitar rock blues progressive country dallas , texas , u.s. louis charles stevenson
b. w. stevenson

b. w. stevenson -lrb- october 5 , 1949 -- april 28 , 1988 -rrb- , born louis charles stevenson , was an american country pop artist , working in a genre now called progressive country .
`` b.w. '' stood for `` buckwheat . ''
stevenson was born in dallas , texas , and attended w. h. adamson high school with such other future noted musicians as michael martin murphey , ray wylie hubbard , and larry groce .
b.w. stevenson performed and was taped for the pilot of austin city limits .
however , the recording quality was deemed too poor to broadcast .
willie nelson 's performance the following night , october 14 , 1974 , ended up being the first episode of the long-running program .
