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Reggie Young was also called, for awhile, the “Fifth Highwayman”.
He’s featured pretty prominently on guitar on this clip of “Silver Stallion” from the group’s 1990 show at Nassau Coliseum.
Don’t forget Sanger “Whitey” D. Shafer, who was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989 and who passed away January 12.
He was not only a songwriter and a musician, but also recorded for Musicor and RCA, but was never as successful as he was as a songwriter, his biggest hit was “You Are A LIar” which reached #48 in 1981.
Born (10/24/34) in Whitney, Texas, he started touring with a then unknown Willie Nelson and in 1967 moved to Nashville. Apart from lesser known artists, George Jones recorded two of his songs “Between My House and Home” and “I’m A New Man In Town.”
In the early 70s he started to write for publisher Acuff-Rose and befriended Lefty Frizzell, with whom he wrote “That’s The Way Love Goes” (recorded by Johnny Rodriguez & Merle Haggard) and “I Never Go Around Mirrors” (Lefty, Keith Whitley) as well as “Bandy The Rodeo Clown” (Moe Bandy). The Possum recorded with “Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong” another of his compositions. After Lefty passed in 1975, Shafer wrote a tribute song, “Lefty’s Gone” which was later reocordes by George Strait.
It was fellow Texan, George Strait who recorded Shafer’s “Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your MInd” and “All My Ex’s Live In Texas” which were not only #1 hits but were also nominated for CMA’s Song of the Year. He had another #1 hit with “I Wonder Do You Think of Me” which was the title track and the first single released by Keith Whitley right after his death.
Shafer also released two sought-after albums “I Never Go Around Mirrors” and “So Good For So Long” containing his best songs.
Shafer was 84, when he passed away earlier this year after a long illness.
Omitting Shafer was an oversight on my part and I realized it after this posted. Thank you for mentioning him. He’s just as important to the legacy of country music as all the legends I eulogized here.