Willie Nelson still plays “ Trigger”, the classic Martin N-20 Shot installed an electric pick-up on in his early years. Shot built flat-tops for music legends such as George Jones, Ernest Tubb, and Roy Clark, in addition to customizing various guitars for The Opry Stars. In addition to steel guitars, the company produced amplifiers, flat-top guitars, dobros and banjos. The instrument also added interesting musical textures to rock, gospel, pop and jazz, used by acts such as the Beach Boys, Yes, Poco, the Eagles, many Sacred Steel artists and others. The Sho-Bud pedal steel helped shape the sound of country music from its infancy with its unique tone and pitch changing characteristics, helping to carve out that “Nashville Sound”. He started his own line of resonators called the “Sho-Bro”. Harry and Shot occupied the upper floor of the Sho-Bud shop at 416 Broadway, Harry building the custom steels while Shot worked repairs and new designs on acoustics and dobros. His son William worked at the factory throughout his teenage years, apprenticing not only under his father, uncle and grandfather, but also alongside Yasu Kamiya, Paul Franklin, AJ Nelson, Duane Marrs and other notable guitar builders and artists. David operated Music City Manufacturing Company, which is where the majority of Sho-Bud steel guitars were built from 1970 to 1981. In the late 60′s, David developed and patented a new pedal actuated pitch changing device that would become the most replicated string-pulling mechanism in the guitar industry. Buddy would go on to build his own line of steels, while Shot’s creations at Sho-Bud continued, now with sons Harry and David at his side. In 1955 he and Buddy Emmons joined forces and started ”Sho-Bud”, the first manufacturer of pedal steel guitars.
In the early 1950′s, Shot began installing string pullers with pedals on Fenders, Rickenbackers, and other steel guitars.
He eventually landed his dream job, playing dobro with Roy Acuff (the King of Country Music.) In addition to touring, he was a recording artist and producer and played with Roy Clark and the Clark Family on the popular “ Hee-Haw” television series. In 1943, Harold “Shot” Jackson began playing the steel guitar on the Grand Ole Opry with such legends as Johnny and Jack and the Queen of Country Music, Kitty Wells. History Sho-Bud, the Jackson family and the “Nashville Sound”
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