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Sep 4, 1920Steel guitarist Shot Jackson is born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He works with such acts as Roy Acuff, Melba Montgomery and Kitty Wells, for whom he plays on "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"Jul 10, 1965Wreck on the highway: Roy Acuff, guitarist June Stearns and steel player Shot Jackson are injured in a near-fatal car crash in east Tennessee. Acuff has a pair of pelvic fractures and a broken collarbone. Stearns never returns to the bandJun 13, 1975Donna Fargo, Brenda Lee and Billy "Crash" Craddock are added to the Walkway of Stars at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. Also inducted are Jim and Jon Hager, Don Rich, Shot Jackson, Robert Lunn and mandolin player Jess EasterdayJan 24, 1991Steel player Shot Jackson dies in Nashville. One of the instrument's innovators, he played with the likes of Roy Acuff, Kitty Wells and Webb Pierce, among othersJul 23, 1999The family of the late Shot Jackson donates his Dobro to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Jackson played on hits by Red Foley, Webb Pierce and Kitty Wells, including "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"
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