Buddy Emmons On this day (July 21) in 2015, Buddy Emmons died of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 78. He was one of the greatest steel guitar players in the history of country music. His innovative changes to the pedal steel added new levels of versatility and variety to the instrument. Those changes have since become the industry standard. Emmons played in the backing bands of multiple country legends. He also sat in on ses…
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