When he was eleven years old, his father bought him a lap steel guitar and arranged for lessons at the Hawaiian Conservatory of Music in South Bend, Indiana, which he attended for about a year. 2 Contributions to design of the steel guitarĮmmons was born in Mishawaka, Indiana.He won the Academy of Country Music's "Best Steel Guitarist" nine times, beginning in 1969. 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. Įmmons 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. 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. Īffectionately known by the nickname "Big E", Emmons' primary genre was American country music, but he also performed jazz and Western swing. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981. He died in Hermitage, Tennessee, outside Nashville, in July 2015 at the age of 78.Buddy Gene Emmons (Janu– July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day. Emmons fully recovered but decided not to return to regular session work, preferring to record only with selected artists and to perform intermittently. He continued to play in recording sessions throughout the '90s and into the new millennium, but was forced to stop playing around 2001 due to a repetitive motion injury. In 1993, Emmons began touring with the Everly Brothers. He quit Miller's band in 1973 and signed a solo contract, releasing several albums in the late '70s.Īfter 1978, Emmons began playing for a number of small labels, where he and Ray Pennington occasionally collaborated with some of Nashville's finest sidemen as the Swing Shift Band. When not touring with Miller, he did session work for a variety of artists. In 1969, Emmons joined Roger Miller's Los Angeles-based band as a bass player. This led the two to create the Sho-Bud Company, which sold an innovative steel guitar that used push-rod pedals. In 1963, he began a five-year stint with Ray Price & the Cherokee Cowboys, and in 1965 teamed up with fellow steel player Shot Jackson to record the LP The Steel Guitar & Dobro Sounds. In the late '50s, Emmons began playing occasionally with Ernest Tubb's band on Midnight Jamboree. He also recorded a pair of solo singles for Columbia, "Cold Rolled Steel" (1956) and "Silver Bells" (1957). He appeared with them a few times on The Grand Ole Opry and recorded with them on a few singles, including "Buddy's Boogie" (1957). In 1956, Emmons went to Detroit to fill in for Walter Haynes during a performance with Little Jimmy Dickens soon afterward he was invited to join Dickens' Country Boys. As a teen, he enrolled at the Hawaiian Conservatory of Music in South Bend, Indiana, and began playing professionally in Calumet City and Chicago at age 16. Born in Mishawaka, Indiana, he first fell in love with the instrument at age 11 when he received a six-string lap steel guitar as a gift. Buddy Emmons earned a place among Nashville's elite as one of the finest steel guitar players in the business.
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