Topic: When BE split the pedal....

C Dixon · From: Duluth, GA USA

"The old gray mare is not what it used to be"! Because he has passed 90 yrs on last April 5, 2022.

However: my "caregiver" (for the last 7 yrs) wanted to KNOW more about the "Pedal Steel Guitar". After I gave her my book: "The Evolution of the Pedal Guitar".

YES!!!!!!!!!!! I KNOW it has some mistakes. Sad, but true.

Since I am in those days, that could "end" with NO warnings; she wanted to record as much as I could: about "Country Music" and the "Pedal Steel Guitar", etc. So she has set up a video recorder.

Where she asks me questions, and I answer as best I can. Because it is very difficult; for me to speak any more. So I was talking about the "split" pedals. And I remembered I posted that "subject" above, 19 yrs ago on the SGF.

So I chose to add one more "post" on that subject. And that is: When did Buddy Emmons record his first split pedals to A and B?

And I found it, I do believe. And that recording was Ernest Tubb's "Half a Mind" in 1958.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47xX9NDpxJo

Now; I'm NOT sure that was the recording. But I think it was. Where you can hear the "Moving Tone" clearly (for the first time) that the split A and B pedals can do beautifully!

"That" Buddy Emmons created. And will live forever by many singers and musical instruments. Like "Floyd Kramer"; who made a fortune using it. But they called it "The Bent Note". Dadgum it!

May Jesus rest Buddy Emmons' precious Soul. And may Jesus bless you and yours always.

Now, I was told not to bring "religion" into this SGF. Oh well! I did it again. And I don't give a rat's derriere!

c. Sorry folks, for the terribly long post. Sad

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Marco Schouten · From: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

However, Buddy himself commented here on the Forum that he wasn't the first who split the pedals.
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Scott Swartz · From: St. Louis, MO

Good to see you back if only for one post! I learned a lot from all the information you contributed to the SGF.
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Marco Schouten · From: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Donny Hinson

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Post Posted 29 Oct 2018 11:05 pm Reply with quote
Here's the answer right from the "Big E" -

Quote:
Bud (Isaacs) originally pulled the B and lower G# strings with one pedal. I split the B string pull away from the G# pulls, and placed them on separate pedals in 1956. Sonny Burnette had split pedals before I did, but I did not get the idea from him. I got it from Jimmy Day and Spider Rich playing harmony on a Dave Rich album. The only way I could get that sound was to split the function of the single pedal. I told Day what I'd done, but I didn't tell him which way I split them. So he had his split just the opposite.

That quote (from a Tom Bradshaw interview of Buddy for Guitar Player magazine in 1976) would indicate that Sonny Burnette had split pedals first, then Buddy, and then Jimmy. I'll take it as gospel until I hear or can find out otherwise.

Sonny Burnette doesn't get a lot of mention, but he was very popular, playing pedal steel on most of Webb Pierce's records. Bud Isaacs played on only five of Webb's records between 1953 and 1954. Sonny played on over fifty of them from 1954 to 1958, and was later heard on some Charlie Lovin and Red Sovine records. Also, he was a staff player on the 'Opry for a few years.
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Gary Spaeth · From: Wisconsin, USA

according to fish's book, buddy said he got the idea from grady martin who was doing a gospel session.

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