Harold Bradley "Shot" Jackson was an American country guitarist best known for playing Dobro and pedal steel guitar.
10 Facts About Shot Jackson
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Shot Jackson designed and manufactured guitars under the name Sho-Bud.
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Shot Jackson left the Tennessee Mountain Boys to play steel guitar for Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys.
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Shot Jackson designed a pedal steel guitar with Buddy Emmons, marketing it under the name Sho-Bud.
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In 1962 Shot Jackson released a solo album, Singing Strings of Steel Guitar and Dobro, on Starday Records.
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From 1964 until mid-1965, Shot Jackson was back playing with Roy Acuff, but was badly injured in a serious head-on car crash that Acuff caused by passing without assured clear distance as they were late for a show.
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Shot Jackson was responsible for introducing Willie Nelson to his favorite lifelong guitar, Trigger.
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Shot Jackson's professional playing after that became sporadic, but included two albums with Roy Clark.
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Shot Jackson sold Sho-Bud to Baldwin-Gretsch in 1980, selling his instrument repair business three years later.
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Shot Jackson was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1986.