On this day (February 27) in 1935, Norm Hamlet was born in Woodville, California. His career is long and full of musical highlights. Hamlet was Merle Haggard’s pedal steel player for 49 years. As a ...

On this day (January 27) in 1937, Buddy Emmons was born in Mishawaka, Indiana. He started playing a lap steel guitar when he was just 11 years old. By the time he was 16, he had dropped out of high ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wesley Webb West—most commonly; Speedy West—is the first known country musician to professionally use a pedal steel guitar.