Check out this video of "Cool It" from Tubbs' TV show for a lesson in pedal steel pickin'. The singer and bandleader seemed to know what he had in Charleton and guitarist Leon Rhodes and featured them on a bunch of instrumentals. The brief biography on Charleton's web site calls it one of the most difficult moments of his career: ".the first night with the Troubadours when somebody in the crowd said 'Hey, that's not Buddy Emmons!'"īut it became what some have called Tubbs' hottest band. Buddy Emmons - Adventures With The Wild Man Of Steel Buddy Emmons first hit Nashville on July 4, 1955, bringing along his steel guitar, limitless talent that dazzled a city full of gifted musicians and a streak of wildness that could have made his career a Roman candle, as big as the sky, before it burned out too soon. When pedal steel legend Buddy Emmons left the Texas Troubadours, Charleton's reputation landed him the job and the 23-year old took his first airplane ride to join the band in Oregon. He was 72 years old and suffering from lung cancer.Ĭharleton was born in New Market and played in clubs around Northern Virginia, sometimes accompanying Patsy Cline. Charleton's pedal steel gave voice to Tubbs' misty tears of memory on "Waltz Across Texas" and added hot licks to numerous other Tubbs tunes. Buddy Charleton, who created some of the signature sounds of 1960s country music as a member of Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours, died January 25th at his home in Locust Grove, Virginia.
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