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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Influential pedal steel guitarist Buddy Emmons, who recorded with country music greats and toured as a bass player for Roger Miller, has died at age 78, the Nashville ...

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 ...

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 ...