Amazing Steel Guitar: The Buddy Emmons Collection

In Buddy Emmons’ hands, the pedal steel not only became country music’s weepiest instrument but also its most versatile. On this 1956-63 compilation, Amazing Steel Guitar: The Buddy Emmons Collection, Emmons cuts loose on jazz classics, bebop, and Western swing. Though tame by today’s standards, it’s a giddy fusion that made Birdland and the Opry seem closer than anyone thought. B-