Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon

Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon

by Steve Fishell
Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon

Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon

by Steve Fishell

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Overview

A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022

The acknowledged maestro of the pedal steel guitar, Buddy Emmons lent his unparalleled virtuosity to over five decades of hit recordings and set standards that remain the benchmark for musicians today.

Steve Fishell’s merger of biography and memoir draws extensively on in-depth interviews with Emmons and the artist's autobiographical writings. Emmons went from playing strip clubs to a Grand Ole Opry debut with Little Jimmy Dickens at age 18. His restless experimentation led to work with Ernest Tubb and Ray Price—and established him in a career that saw him play alongside a who’s who of American music. Fishell weaves in stories and anecdotes from Willie Nelson, Brenda Lee, Linda Ronstadt, Pat Martino, and many others to provide a fascinating musical and personal portrait of an innovator whose peerless playing and countless recordings recognized no boundaries.

A one-of-a-kind life story, Buddy Emmons expands our view of a groundbreaking artist and his impact on country music, jazz, and beyond.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780252086786
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 09/06/2022
Series: Music in American Life
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Steve Fishell is a Nashville-based pedal steel guitarist, Grammy-winning record producer, and educator. He has performed on chart-topping records for Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Eric Church, and Emmylou Harris, with whom he has toured and recorded for forty years. Fishell has also produced number one singles for Pam Tillis, Radney Foster, and Charlie Major. Fishell teaches at the University of New Haven.

Table of Contents

Preface

Buddy Emmons Timeline

  1. Lower Broad, 1965
  2. Back Home in Indiana
  3. Chops
  4. Sin City
  5. Motown
  6. Raisin’ the Dickens
  7. Discovery Days
  8. The Importance of Being Ernest
  9. California Interlude
  10. Color of the Blues
  11. A Troubadour Again
  12. The Cherokee Cowboys
  13. Emmons Original
  14. Night Life
  15. Steel Guitar Jazz
  16. The Bottom
  17. Rainbows All Over Your Blues
  18. Suite Steel
  19. Back to Nashville
  20. The Great Stream
  21. Gentle on My Mind
  22. Hold On
  23. The Sound Factory and Swing Shift
  24. Awards and Battles
  25. Where the Sidewalk Ends
  26. When I Call Your Name
  27. Steel Guitar Heaven
Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Tributes and Testimonials

Appendix B: Buddy Emmons’s Tunings and Pedal Changes

Notes

Index

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