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 1-25 of 125 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | NA 9881 | 7/12/1957 | If you'll be my love | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 9882 | 7/12/1957 | Someday you'll want me to want you | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 9883 | 7/12/1957 | I saw your face in the moon | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 9888 | 7/14/1957 | Try me one more time | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 9889 | 7/14/1957 | I'd trade all of my tomorrows | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 9890 | 7/14/1957 | Silver dew on the bluegrass | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 9897 | 7/16/1957 | My Mary | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 9898 | 7/16/1957 | Into each life some rain must fall | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 9899 | 7/16/1957 | I gotta have my baby back | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 9900 | 7/16/1957 | Hang your head in shame | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10131 | 2/18/1958 | Sugar lips | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10132 | 2/18/1958 | Rock it on down to my house | Justin Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10272 | 5/16/1958 | Deep purple blues | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10273 | 5/16/1958 | Please keep me on mind | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10274 | 5/16/1958 | I wonder why I worry over you | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10275 | 5/19/1958 | I'm a long gone Daddy | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10276 | 5/19/1958 | You cheatin' heart | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10277 | 5/19/1958 | Don't trade your old fashioned sweetheart (for a honky tonk queen) | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10278 | 5/19/1958 | It makes no difference now | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10281 | 5/20/1958 | San Antonio rose | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10282 | 5/20/1958 | I always went through | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10287 | 5/22/1958 | I want you to know I love you I've been there | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10288 | 5/22/1958 | That, my darlin' is me | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10289 | 5/22/1958 | I'll get along somehow | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar | |||
Decca | NA 10290 | 6/9/1958 | Educated Mama | The Texas Troubadours ; Ernest Tubb | instrumentalist, steel guitar |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Emmons, Gene "Buddy"," accessed August 21, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/202947.
Emmons, Gene "Buddy". (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved August 21, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/202947.
"Emmons, Gene "Buddy"." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 21 August 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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