2015 marked the passing of pedal steel guitar legend Buddy Emmons, a man described by one contemporary as the “Picasso or Michelangelo” of his instrument. Over the span of his nearly seven-decade-long career Emmons logged innumerable sessions and released more than a dozen albums as a bandleader or solo artist. In addition, as a founding partner in the Sho-Bud and Emmons Guitar companies he designed and manufactured the instruments that he and many other top pedal steel guitarists played. But before he achieved . . .
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