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unusual facts about Pedal steel guitar


Pedal steel guitar

Several pioneering manufacturers of the electric guitar were first famous for their work on the then more popular electric steel guitar, among them Adolph Rickenbacker, Paul Bigsby and Leo Fender.


Home, Home on the Road

Home, Home on the Road was produced by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, who had co-founded the New Riders and had been their original pedal steel guitar player.

Jerry Brightman

Jerry Brightman (born 1953) is a pedal steel guitarist who played for Buck Owens and the The Buckaroos and featured on television's Hee Haw along with performing on many top 10 records with Buck, Susan Raye, Tony Booth, and others.

The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage

Jerry Garciapedal steel guitar on "I Don't Know You", "Glendale Train", "Louisiana Lady", "Last Lonely Eagle", and "Henry"

Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 12/31/77

At the time of this concert, the New Riders' lineup consisted of John Dawson on guitar and vocals, David Nelson on guitar and vocals, Buddy Cage on pedal steel guitar, Stephen Love on bass and vocals, and Patrick Shanahan on drums.


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Ernest Tubb

Buddy Emmons, another pedal steel guitar virtuoso, began with Tubb in fall of 1957 and lasted through the early 1960s.

Frank L. Anderson

As a session musician in the 1990s for producer Butch Vig's Smart Studios he played accordion and pedal steel guitar on recordings for grunge and punk rock bands such as Killdozer (band) ("Twelve Point Buck", 1991) and Paw (band) (Dragline (album), 1994).

Jerry Byrd

Though Byrd often joked about pedal steel guitar players, he had nothing but the highest of praise for Buddy Emmons, saying he had taken the steel guitar to new places with his playing.

Portrait of Narcissus

The album contains 12 original tracks and features such notables as Victoria Williams on vocals, Michelle Shocked on vocals, Joshua Seurkamp on drums, Kim Taylor on vocals and Joshua Grange on pedal steel guitar.

Sleepercar

Heinrich would go on to perform pedal steel guitar on the Sparta album Threes, Ukulele on Ward's Quiet EP, and finally pedestal for Sleepercar.

The Dead Livers

Later members included Richard O'Keefe (drums), Warren Keats (guitar), Peter Thorne (guitar), John Berto (guitar), Randy Broughten (pedal steel guitar)(before joining the Gear Daddies in the US), Bob Suffern (pedal steel guitar), Rodger Delfos (guitar), Ross Nicholson (guitar and vocals), Craig Reeves (piano), Les Gough (bass guitar), Ron Mahony (drums) and Don Farrell (guitar).

The Legend and the Legacy

Producer and pedal steel guitar artist Pete Drake brought Tubb and his current line-up of the Texas Troubadours into the recording studio to record basic tracks in 1977.

Why Baby Why

The recording session for "Why Baby Why" took place in Houston, Texas's Gold Star Studios and featured the house lineup of Glenn Barber on lead guitar, Herb Remington on pedal steel guitar, Tony Sepolio on fiddle, and Doc Lewis on piano.