"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 ...

Art of Life recently reissued Canadian ex-pat Lenny Breau's last album before his untimely death in '84, Swingin' on a Seven-String, bringing the special relationship that Breau shared with Nashville ...

One of the most influential steel guitar players in country music, Buddy Emmons, has died at the age of 78. Emmons passed away on Wednesday (July 29). He was known as "The World's Foremost Steel ...

If you're a big fan of guitar god Lenny Breau and pedal-steel legend Buddy Emmons, you may have heard the album they recorded in Nashville together in 1978, Minors Aloud. And if you haven't, local ...

Art of Life recently reissued Canadian ex-pat Lenny Breau's last album before his untimely death in '84, Swingin' on a Seven-String, bringing the special relationship that Breau shared with Nashville ...

Pedal steel guitar innovator Buddy Emmons has died at the age of 78. Nicknamed “The Big E” for his height, Mr. Emmons, a member of the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, played with some of country music’s ...

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Country music wouldn't sound like itself without the pedal-steel guitar, and the instrument sounds the way it does today because of Buddy Emmons, who died Wednesday in Nashville at 78. Though he might ...

Buddy Emmons, who died yesterday in Nashville at age 78, achieved the kind of exalted position among musicians and listeners that few instrumentalists in the history of country music have equaled. In ...