EMMONS, BUDDY
(*1937)
EMMONS, BUDDY (b. B. Gene E., Mishawaka, Ind., January 27, 1937) Emmons is a pioneer of the PEDAL-STEEL GUITAR and one of the most influential steel guitarists on the Nashville scene, with a thirty-five-year career. He was born in rural Indiana but raised in South Bend. Hearing HANK WILLIAMS on The Grand Ole Opry, he was mesmerized by the sound of steel guitarist Don Helms, a mainstay of Williams's band. His parents got him his first instrument, and by his early teens he was performing locally…