He will always be someone that I look up to and admire. Every steel player admires his talent and loves to hear him play. Sonny Curtis of the Crickets once said: “Buddy is the main person that has brought the steel guitar to where it is today. His songwriting has been newly recognised by current country favourite Kacey Musgraves, whose “hidden track” at the end of her recently-released ‘Pageant Material’ album is a version of Emmons and Willie Nelson’s song ‘Are You Sure,’ on which Nelson sings.
Later, he worked with George Strait, Ricky Skaggs and others, and in the early 1990s, he began touring with the Everly Brothers. In the early 1960s, Emmons left Tubb to replace Jimmy Day in Ray Price’s Cherokee Cowboys, appearing on such singes as the 1963 hit ‘You Took Her Off My Hands (Now Please Take Her Off My Mind).’ He played the evocative, moody steel intro and solo on Price’s early version of Willie Nelson’s ‘Night Life,’ which became his signature hit and was later covered repeatedly.Įmmons worked for six years in California with Roger Miller, returning to Nashville in the mid-1970s to appear on sessions for stars such as Mel Tillis and Donna Fargo, and he played on Gram Parsons’ much-revered ‘GP’ album. Although both he and the instrument are indelibly associated with country music, Emmons makes it work for several reasons. In ’57, Buddy became a member of Tubb’s group, the Texas Troubadours, and played the striking steel guitar on his top ten country hit ‘Half A Mind.’ Buddy Emmons wasnt the first musician to be featured playing a pedal steel guitar in a jazz setting, but it is unlikely that anyone else recorded an entire date playing one prior to this 1963 session.
2 country hit version of ‘Sweet Dreams,’ also a success for Don Gibson that year and later closely associated with Patsy Cline.
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