teen-aged Buddy Emmons w Jimmy Dickens

[scott murray]

I went down a rabbit hole the other night looking for all the footage of a very young Big E on these old Opry TV shows:

Episode 57
Episode 58
Episode 60
Episode 62
Episode 74
Episode 80
Episode 81
Episode 84
Episode 85

E njoy!

[Dave Magram]

Scott,

Thanks for posting those clips!
Thye prove that Buddy was an amazing steel guitar player, even at just 18 years old when he joined Jimmy Dickens' band in 1955!!

In 1977, Lloyd Green said:
“He’s not an ordinary guy. In my opinion, Buddy Emmons is probably the most intelligent and talented musician who’s ever played the instrument. He’s like Picasso or Michelangelo.
That might be laying it on a little thick, but he’s just flawless in his playing. Nobody is the composite player he is.
He was the first modern great steel player and nobody’s surpassed him yet. Emmons just, by God, came along and sounded like a 1977 steel player when he came here in 1955”
https://gene-watson.com/buddy-emmons/

- Dave

[Frank Freniere]

Scott these are great - thanks! Lots of good close-ups of Johnny Sibert, and Jimmy Day on a Wright Custom Quad, too.