ISAACS, BUD
(*1928)
ISAACS, BUD (b. Bedford, Ind., March 26, 1928) Isaacs, a pioneering player of the PEDAL STEEL GUITAR, helped popularize the instrument in postwar country music. Isaacs was influenced early in his life by hearing Jerry Byrd on country radio, and took up the Hawaiian guitar in his early teens. He was working on local radio by his mid-teens, and had acquired and was playing one of the first Gibson Electra-Harps, an early form of the pedal steel guitar. In 1944 he got a radio job in Texas, and then…