Early in Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon, Steve Fishell’s deft and lively biography, we meet the future legend as a skinny, high school-hating 14-year-old boy on his bike, hanging around outside a bar ...

The legendary musician worked with everyone from Ray Price to Ray Charles while making a complicated instrument seem effortless. He died Wednesday... Buddy Emmons, The Pedal-Steel Guitarist Who ...

Steve Fishell, who plays pedal steel for Emmylou Harris, calls Emmons a musical genius — even a savant. "You're talking about the ability to play fiery, complex, single-note solos that just would ...

WASHINGTON — Buddy Emmons, an innovative pedal steel guitarist who toured with the Everly Brothers, Ray Price, and Ernest Tubb and was one of the first to bring the instrument into the jazz and rock ...

Buddy Emmons, an innovative pedal steel guitarist who toured with the Everly Brothers, Ray Price and Ernest Tubb and was one of the first to bring the instrument into the jazz and rock genres, died ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Steve Fishell, who plays pedal steel for Emmylou Harris, calls Emmons a musical genius — even a savant ...

"BUDDY EMMONS: STEEL GUITAR ICON" by Steve Fishell (University of Illinois Press, 288 pages, $23). Early in "Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon," Steve Fishell's deft and lively biography, we meet the ...

Not only did Buddy Emmons set a benchmark for pedal steel guitar that has changed little since the 1960s, but he invented mechanical aspects that make the instrument what it is today. Although he ...

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Nothing cries as convincingly as a pedal steel guitar. While that sound breaths emotion into Hawaiian, country, and even rock n’ roll music on occasion, it is more often associated with Nashville than ...