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Pedal steel guitar
The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal slide (the "steel") to stop or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it uses foot pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence...
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Baby Gramps
Baby Gramps is a steel guitar performer, who, though born in Miami, Florida, has been based in the Northwest USA for at least the last 40 years. He is famous for his palindromes. Baby Gramps started performing in 1964 and is still playing...
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Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the...
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- Aug 1, 1942
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- Aug 9, 1995 (age 53 years)
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David Mansfield
David Mansfield (born September 13, 1956, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American violinist, mandolin player, guitarist, pedal steel guitar player, and composer.
Raised in Leonia, New Jersey, his first band was Quacky Duck and His Barnyard Friends,...
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- Sep 13, 1956 (age 53 years)
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Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois (pronounced /ˌlæn ˈwɑː/, lan-wah) (born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist and singer-songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety...
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- Sep 19, 1951 (age 58 years)
Joe Perry
Anthony Joseph "Joe" Perry (born September 10, 1950) is the lead guitarist, backing and occasional lead vocalist, and contributing songwriter for the rock band Aerosmith. He was ranked 48th in the Rolling Stone's list - The 100 Greatest Guitarists...
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- Sep 10, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Lloyd Maines
Lloyd Maines (born June 28, 1951) is an American Grammy Award-winning country music record producer, musician and songwriter and who was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas and is now based in Austin, Texas.
Arguably best known as a pedal steel player...
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- Jun 28, 1951 (age 58 years)
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Ernie Ball
Ernie Ball (c.1930 – September 9, 2004) was an American entrepreneur, musician, and innovator, widely acclaimed as a revolutionary in the development of guitar-related products. He began as a club and local television musician and small business...
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- 1930
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 2004 (age 74 years)
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Larry Campbell
Larry Campbell (born February 21, 1955 in New York City, New York) is a multi-instrumentalist who plays several string instruments (including guitar, mandolin, pedal steel guitar, slide guitar, and violin) in genres including country, folk, and rock...
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- Feb 21, 1955 (age 54 years)
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Sneaky Pete Kleinow
Peter E. "Sneaky Pete" Kleinow (August 20, 1934 - January 6, 2007) was an American country-rock musician, songwriter, and a motion picture special effects artist.
Kleinow was born in South Bend, Indiana. Before his musical career, he originally...
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- Aug 20, 1934
Date of death:
- Jan 6, 2007 (age 72 years)
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Mike Mogis
Mike Mogis is a Nebraskan producer/engineer and multi-instrumentalist who, along with his brother A.J. Mogis, founded Presto! Recording Studios (previously known as Dead Space Recording and, earlier, Whoopass Recording).
Mike has engineered,...
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Jon Graboff
Jon Graboff is a multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Since 2007, he has been a member of The Cardinals, primarily as a pedal steel guitarist. He lives in New York City and has performed and/or recorded with Willie Nelson, Joan Osborne, David...
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Ton Masseurs
Ton Masseurs (born 7 December 1947, in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands) is a Dutch guitarist noted as one of the first pedal steel guitar players in Europe. He was the lead guitar/steel guitar player, and a founding member, of the Dutch Country and...
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- Dec 7, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Speedy West
Wesley Webb West (January 25, 1924 – November 15, 2003), better known as Speedy West, was an American pedal steel guitarist and record producer. He frequently played with Jimmy Bryant, both in their own duo and as part of the regular Capitol Records...
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- Jan 25, 1924
Date of death:
- Nov 15, 2003 (age 79 years)
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Paul Franklin
Paul Franklin (born 1953 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis...
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- 1953 (age 57 years)
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Bobby Lee
Bobby Lee is a pedal steel guitar player and active promotor of the instrument, including founding and participating on a number of Internet websites and discussion forums.
Inspired by the steel guitar styles of Jerry Garcia (with The Grateful Dead)...
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Ben Keith
Ben Keith is an American pedal steel guitarist, from Bowling Green, Kentucky. He worked as a session musician in Nashville in the late 1950s and 1960s. He is most famous for his work with Neil Young, both in stage shows and on albums such as Harvest...
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Pete Drake
Pete Drake (8 October 1932 – 29 July 1988), born Roddis Franklin Drake, was a major Nashville, Tennessee-based record producer and pedal steel guitar player.
One of the most sought-after backup musicians of the 1960s, Drake played on such hits as...
Date of birth:
- Oct 8, 1932
Date of death:
- Jul 29, 1988 (age 55 years)
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B. J. Cole
Brian John Cole (born 17 June 1946, in Enfield, Middlesex, England) is an English pedal steel guitarist. Coming to prominence in the early 1970s with the band Cochise, Cole has played in many styles of music, ranging from mainstream pop and rock, to...
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- Jun 17, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Jeff Newman
Jeff Newman (January 7, 1942 – April 7, 2004) was an American country musician who played the pedal steel guitar. He was a veteran Nashville session player. A devoted teacher and player, Newman also wrote a column for the short-lived specialty...
Date of birth:
- Jan 7, 1942
Date of death:
- Apr 7, 2004 (age 62 years)
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Barry Sless
Barry Sless is an American musician from Baltimore, Maryland. He is skilled at both traditional six-string guitar and the pedal steel guitar.
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Ron Wood
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and The Rolling Stones. He is known for his characteristic slide guitar style, and also plays lap and pedal...
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- Jun 1, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Bernie Leadon
Bernard Leadon (born July 19, 1947, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the Eagles. He has also played in other bands, including the Flying Burrito Brothers and Dillard & Clark...
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- Jul 19, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Robert Randolph & The Family Band
Robert Randolph & The Family Band is a multicultural American funk and soul band led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph. Other band members include drummer Marcus Randolph, bass guitarist Danyel Morgan, vocalist Lenesha Randolph, and one of...
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Nils Lofgren
Nils Lofgren (born Nils Hilmer Lofgren, June 21, 1951, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American rock music singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Famous as a solo artist, he has marked 25 years as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E...
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- 1951 (age 59 years)
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Don Felder
Donald William Felder (born September 21, 1947 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician and songwriter, best known for his work as lead guitarist for the Eagles from 1974 until 2001.
Don Felder was first attracted to music after watching...
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- Sep 21, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he...
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- Jan 9, 1944 (age 66 years)
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David Immerglück
David Immerglück is an American Grammy award-nominated multi-instrumentalist who is best known as a guitarist in the alternative rock bands Counting Crows, Camper Van Beethoven and the Monks of Doom. A versatile musician, Immerglück plays mandolin,...
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1964 (age 45 years)
Red Rhodes
Orville J. Rhodes, better known as Red Rhodes or O. J. Rhodes (December 30, 1930 - August 20, 1995), was an American pedal steel guitarist. His mother taught him to play the Dobro at the age of five, but at the age of fifteen he switched to the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 30, 1930
Date of death:
- Aug 20, 1995 (age 64 years)
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John McFee
John McFee (born September 9, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. One of his first exploits was playing pedal steel guitar on Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey, he later played on the title track of Morrison's...
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- Sep 9, 1950 (age 59 years)
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Steven Dorocke
Stephen Dorocke is an American pedal steel guitar player. He has performed with Handsome Family, Freakwater and Stan Ridgway. Stephen also contributed stellar standard electric guitar work as a member of Seattle-based studio legends, Throttle Body ...
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Susan Alcorn
Susan Alcorn (born 1953) is an American composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist active in contemporary music and free improvisation.
Alcorn started out playing guitar at the age of twelve, quickly immersing herself in folk music, blues, and...
Date of birth:
- 1953 (age 57 years)
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Alvino Rey
Alvin McBurney (July 1, 1907 – February 2, 2004), known by his stage name Alvino Rey, was an American swing era musician and pioneer, often credited as the father of the pedal steel guitar. He was mainly associated with orchestral, big band and...
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- Jul 1, 1907
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- Feb 2, 2004 (age 96 years)
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Randy Crouch
Randy Crouch (born April 1, 1952) is an Oklahoma-based multi-instrumentalist. In eastern Oklahoma, Crouch is best known as a fiddle player. Although he has been referred to as "the world's best rock fiddler," Crouch also plays guitar and pedal steel...
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- Apr 1, 1952 (age 57 years)
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Nick Zala
Nick Zala , pedal steel guitarist, was born Nicholas Michael Anthony Zala in Barnet, Hertfordshire, 21 January 1959.
Drawing on the influences of his grandparents, both pianists, one a brilliant sight reader, and the other a jazz musician who played...
Date of birth:
- 1959 (age 51 years)
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Mark Collins
Mark Collins (born Mark Vincent Collins, August 14, 1965, Manchester, Lancashire) is an English guitarist best known as a member of the British indie/rock band The Charlatans.
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- Aug 14, 1965 (age 44 years)
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Buddy Emmons
Buddy Emmons (b. January 27, 1937, in Mishawaka, Indiana), is an American guitarist.
Emmons has been called "The World's Foremost Steel Guitarist" and his talent is greatly admired by fellow steel guitarists. His musical versatility spans genres...
John Hughey
John Hughey (born December 27, 1933 in Elaine, Arkansas; died November 18, 2007 in Hendersonville, Tennessee) was an American musician. He was known for his work as a session pedal steel guitar player for various country music acts, most notably...
Date of birth:
- 1933
Date of death:
- 2007 (age 74 years)
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Dale Murray
Dale Murray is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. He is a guitarist and vocalist for the indie rock band Cuff the Duke, and releases solo material under his own name.
Murray resides in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and is the nephew of Anne Murray...
Buddy Cage
Buddy Cage is an American musician who lives in New York City. He has played pedal steel guitar with many bands and recording artists, including Anne Murray, Bob Dylan, David Bromberg, and the Zen Tricksters. He is best known as a longtime member of...
Date of birth:
- 1946 (age 64 years)
