His life was as full of misadventures as his songs. At 21, he lost two fingers in a sawmill accident, and had to learn how …
His life was as full of misadventures as his songs. At 21, he lost two fingers in a sawmill accident, and had to learn how to play guitar with just his remaining eight fingers. In 2007, he was charged with shooting a man in the face at a bar near his home in Waco, but was ultimately found not guilty. In 2004, the musician was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Born on August 16th,1939, in Coriscana, Texas, Shaver was raised by his mother, Victory, and was first exposed to country music at the nightclub where she worked. In the early Sixties, the songwriter moved to Nashville and scored first an apprenticeship for Harlan Howard, and then a job working for Bobby Bare.
