Did you ever hear Billy Braddy play ? Buddy and Billy ( good friends) were given the first pedal steels by Fender ! I was Billy's sound man for that last 4 years of his life ,he never told me he was dying of cancer until a couple weeks before . I had just purchased 2004 Biab and was about to record some western swing tunes when he passed . I started recording his steel guitar direct at gigs so I could save some of his music ,but he only had 2 gigs left . I made a CD of his licks to use in my home recordings ,but have never used them yet . I played on a CD with Maurice Anderson (also friends w/ Billy)before in Dallas ,but was just a hired guitarist. He was so incredible and did all of the tunes in only one take . He wrote the charts for us all so fast it was unbelievable . Here is a picture of Billy and another friend of mine that passed Pee Wee Walker (great fiddle player) we played together every Sat. night for 4 years. I miss them both !
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