Pedal steel guitar innovator Buddy Emmons has died at ... Mr. Emmons and musician Shot Jackson formed the Sho-Bud Guitar Co. in 1956. Less than a decade later, he’d leave Sho-Bud and create ...

Jackson native Joe Wright laughs as he tells ... It's not a keyboard. It's a pedal steel guitar, which is frequently used to play country music. The instrument sits on legs with its strings ...

After Dickens dissolved his band in 1956, Emmons and fellow guitarist Shot Jackson formed the Sho-Bud Company, which designed and built steel guitars ... loss in the pedal steel community and ...

The Jackson family is now combining decades of guitar-building experience with ... The new Sho-Bud line includes both classic and contemporary pedal steel designs along with advanced innovations ...

“Then with guitars, I was still using Les Pauls ... and so Shot Jackson's family went on to do the Jackson pedal steel, and Robert Randolph, who's obviously an amazing steel and lap steel ...

“Then with guitars, I was still using Les Pauls but I used a couple ... “Shot Jackson and Buddy Emmons split up, and so Shot Jackson's family went on to do the Jackson pedal steel, and Robert Randolph ...

The pedal steel guitar had evolved from the Hawaiian lap ... Earlier, he co-founded Sho-Bud Guitars with fellow steel guitarist Shot Jackson in 1956. Buddie Gene Emmons was born in Mishawaka ...