Gene "Buddy" Emmons
Buddy Gene Emmons (January 27, 1937 – July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981. Affectionately known by the nickname "Big E", Emmons' primary genre was American country music, but he also performed jazz and Western swing. 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. Emmons 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. 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. He won the Academy of Country Music's "Best Steel Guitarist" nine times, beginning in 1969. In 2013, two years before his death, he was honored by the Country Music Hall of Fame in a tribute called "The Big E: Salute to Buddy Emmons" featuring testimonials and performances by eminent musicians and hall of fame members. |
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Recordings (Results 26-50 of 125 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | NA 10291 | 6/9/1958 | I'm waiting for ships that never come in | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10292 | 6/11/1958 | Half a mind | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10293 | 6/11/1958 | Next time | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10294 | 6/11/1958 | Goodbye sunshine, hello blues | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10383 | 9/24/1958 | It's the age that makes the difference | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10384 | 9/24/1958 | What am I living for | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10395 | 10/6/1958 | The next voice you hear | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10396 | 10/6/1958 | All those yesterdays | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10397 | 10/6/1958 | Walking the floor over you | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10398 | 10/6/1958 | When the world has turned you down | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10399 | 10/8/1958 | I'll always be glad to take you back | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10400 | 10/8/1958 | It's been so long darling | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10401 | 10/8/1958 | Careless darlin' | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10402 | 10/8/1958 | Through the days where only seven | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10405 | 10/9/1958 | Last night I dreamed | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10406 | 10/9/1958 | Slipping around | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10407 | 10/9/1958 | I love you because | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10408 | 10/9/1958 | There's nothing more to say | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10412 | 10/10/1958 | There's a little bit of everything in Texas | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10413 | 10/10/1958 | You nearly lose your mind | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10414 | 10/10/1958 | Blue Christmas | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10415 | 10/10/1958 | Don't rob another man's castle | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10434 | 10/28/1958 | My French Canadian girl | Montana Slim | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10435 | 10/28/1958 | Sick, sober and sorry | Montana Slim | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10444 | 10/29/1958 | Almost lonely | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Emmons, Gene "Buddy"," accessed November 22, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/202947.
Emmons, Gene "Buddy". (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 22, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/202947.
"Emmons, Gene "Buddy"." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 22 November 2024.
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LCNAR: Emmons, Buddy - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93092723
Wikidata: Buddy Emmons - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1001188
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/16444166
MusicBrainz: Buddy Emmons - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7711e8fa-1c4d-4d59-a572-265473f40852
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