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Buddy Emmons | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Buddy Gene Emmons |
| Born | January 27, 1937 Mishawaka, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | July 21, 2015 (aged 78) Nashville, Tennessee |
| Genres | Country, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar |
| Years active | 1952–2015 |
| Labels | Mercury, Flying Fish |
| Formerly of | Little Jimmy Dickens, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, John Hartford, The Everly Brothers |
Buddy Gene Emmons (January 27, 1937 – July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day.[1][2] He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981.[3] Affectionately known by the nickname "Big E", Emmons' primary genre was American country music, but he also performed jazz and Western swing. He recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons, The Everly Brothers, The Carpenters, Jackie DeShannon, Roger Miller, Ernest Tubb, John Hartford, Little Jimmy Dickens, Ray Price, Judy Collins, George Strait, John Sebastian, and Ray Charles and was a widely sought session musician in Nashville and Los Angeles.[4]
Emmons made significant innovations to the steel guitar, adding two additional strings and an additional pedal, changes which have been adopted as standard in the modern-day instrument.[5] His name is on a US patent for a mechanism to raise and lower the pitch of a string on a steel guitar and return to the original pitch without going out of tune.[6] He won the Academy of Country Music's "Best Steel Guitarist" nine times, beginning in 1969.[2]
In 2013, two years before his death, he was honored by the Country Music Hall of Fame in a tribute called "The Big E: Salute to Buddy Emmons" featuring testimonials and performances by eminent musicians and hall of fame members.[4]
- ^ Betts, Stephen L. (July 30, 2015). "Steel Guitar Great Buddy Emmons Dies". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. ISSN 0035-791X. OCLC 693532152. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
- ^ a b Kingsbury, Paul; McCall, Michael; Rumble, John, eds. (2012). "The Entries, A-Z". The Encyclopedia of Country Music (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199920839. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ^ "The Steel Guitar Hall Of Fame". Scottysmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
- ^ a b "Concert and Conversation: The Big E: Salute to Buddy Emmons". countrymusichalloffame.org. Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. September 21, 2013. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ^ Hurt, Edd (July 30, 2015). "Remembering Steel Guitar Innovator Buddy Emmons". Nashville Scene. SouthComm.
- ^ Morris, Edward (July 30, 2015). "Steel Guitarist and Inventor Buddy Emmons Dead at 78". CMT. Viacom. Archived from the original on August 2, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
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