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Here's a link to a video of Concert and Conversation: The Big E: Salute to Buddy Emmons September 21, 2013. He listed a handful, maybe 5, and included Duane's "Twang A Country Song". Some years ago (maybe as many as 20), Buddy was interviewed by BBC Radio and was asked to name his favourites from all the sessions he had played on. Duane played an innovative arrangement of "Peter Gunn" that combined the original version with the 1986 version and Buddy interpreted the "space age sounds" with some amazing solos, finishing off with the biggest of grins on his face for a job well done. My favourite memory is of Duane and Buddy playing together in the UK in 1991 when Duane was touring with the Everly Brothers. Rest in peace Buddy, and thanks for all the wonderful music. It ranks right up there with Buddy's work on Duane's Weary Blues. I still think that is some of the greatest steel guitar work ever. I had never heard a steel guitar played that way before. I will never forget hearing the Buddy Emmons steel guitar on Night Life. I think it was the Bill Mack Show, not sure, but anyway late at night, Ray Price's album, "Night Life," had just been released, and they played it in its entirety on the radio as I was driving that summer night in my '62 Bonneville. For me, one of those, "do you remember where you were when.?" In the summer of 1962, late one Saturday night, well, actually early Sunday morning, I had just finished playing a club in Chickasha, OK, and was on my way to visit friends at Lake Texoma near Kingston, OK to do some water skiing on Sunday.
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The only consolation is that Buddy is now with his beloved wife, Peggy. There is an existing thread on this topic:
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A great player, with an incredible steel guitar mind of knowing just what and when and how much, plus he could translate it to the strings with absolute accuracy. I know our very dear friend and Buddy were very close. I'm hoping it is just a bad rumor, but the longer it goes without a denial, it appears more and more to be true. A hugely talented musician and a really nice guy. His work on Duane's 'Twang A Country Song' is testament to that. Without doubt the finest steel player ever. Thank you Buddy for being my hero.Just heard the sad news that Buddy has passed away today. 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. 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.’
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2 country hit version of ‘Sweet Dreams,’ also a success for Don Gibson that year and later closely associated with Patsy Cline.