![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Green called Emmons a top-five great among pedal-steel guitar players. "He was one of the first great modern pedal-steel players, and he set the stage for the players like myself who came along a decade later during Nashville's golden era." "His contributions are immeasurable to the steel guitar world," said fellow pedal-steel great Lloyd Green. In recent decades he appeared occasionally on the radio program "A Prairie Home Companion." He even for a time abandoned the steel guitar to tour as Miller's bassist. "In terms of pushing the boundaries of the steel guitar, he was like Jimi Hendrix was to the electric guitar," said Dave Pomeroy, president of the Nashville Musicians Association said on Thursday, Reuters reported.Įmmons arrived in Nashville in 1955 to play with Little Jimmy Dickens' Country Boys, then considered the liveliest band in country music.Įmmons, who is credited with recording the first steel-guitar jazz album (Steel Guitar Jazz in 1963), toured and recorded with Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, the Everly Brothers, Linda Ronstadt, Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons and Ray Charles. Buddy Emmons, the steel guitar legend who recorded with country music's greatest stars including Ray Price, Willie Nelson, and Linda Ronstandt, has died at age 78. ![]()
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