![]() "It's like a Rubik's Cube of a musical instrument that's not unlike driving a stick-shift truck through landmines," he says. There are pedals, knee levers, sometimes two sets of strings. The pedal steel has humbled many a musician who took a seat at one expecting to make a sweet sound. "You're talking about the ability to play fiery, complex, single-note solos that just would leave you staggered when you heard them, coupled with really imaginative chordal work," Fishell says. ![]() Steve Fishell, who plays pedal steel for Emmylou Harris, calls Emmons a musical genius - even a savant. Though he might not be a household name, Emmons played on records for everyone from Ray Price to Ray Charles, and from George Strait to Judy Collins. Buddy Emmons as a member of Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours, circa 1962.Įlmer Williams/Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum/Getty ImagesĬountry 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.
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