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First off, Lynn Anderson, of Rose Garden fame passed away at 67 on Friday, July 31 from a heart attack, after hospitalization for pneumonia earlier. Her life had plenty of downbeats along the way but she was already well-renowned at other pursuits before music and the recording of the Joe South penned song that made her a superstar of country music. Her album Rose Garden held the record for most consecutive number of weeks (14) as the best selling female artist country album for many years, until Shania Twain broke it.
Lynn started out as a regular singer on The Lawrence Welk Show as "The Country Gal" during the 1967-68 season and occasionally afterward, which helped to propel her way to success and Columbia Records in 1970, where the Rose Garden album was released.
Her song was sampled and featured prominently in the KonKan song I Beg Your Pardon and was widely covered. Rose Garden was a huge crossover on the pop charts as well. It seemed to cheer people up who were trying to get away from Vietnam and it was upbeat. It was also unusual as it was written for a male vocalist and the line about I could promise lots of things and cheap diamond rings seemed out of character to her management. Times and attitudes were changing in the early 70s and it seemed to matter little to the public, who made the album a platinum RIAA certified album (Tammy Wynette had similar sales at about the same time but there was no platinum title for country music then and RIAA promptly created it and gave an award to both).
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Next, a man you can recognize in the sound of country itself...steel guitar player and manufacturer Buddy Emmons. Buddy was the Bud in Sho-Bud, a prominent steel guitar maker that he co-founded in 1956 which innovated changes in the split-pedal mechanism and tuning changes that are standard today. Emmons' lightning quick, stylish riffs and distinctive tuning made him a legend and you hear his riffs all over classic country songs and also jazz from the sixties until his retirement in 2007. He learned to play country style while listening to the radio in Hawaii.
When you hear old country, chances are good you hear Buddy. He toured with the greats: Little Jimmy Dickens, Ernest Tubb and The Texas Troubadours, Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys (where he both innovated the ten string steel and started Emmons Guitar Company after leaving Sho-Bud), George Jones and got his career back on track after problems with booze and pills when Roger Miller hired him. He recorded a tribute album to Bob Wills and western swing that was well received and left session work in 1991 for tours with the Everly brothers, until playing injuries made him take time off to recover in 2001. He didn't return to the scene much after that, attending slide guitar clinic and small performances occasionally until his wife passed away in 2007 and he retired.
Buddy (Buddie) Gene Emmons was 78 years old when he passed away July 30. Those who knew him or were inspired by him called it a great tragedy and loss to music.
Some postscripts: welkgirls.com actually updated Lynn's bio page to show she passed away with a one line sentence within a day of her death, something you don't seem to see often.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Anderson
http://www.lynnandersonshow.com/splashpage/
If you want to hear some mp3s and one or two Real Audio files of Buddy playing over fifty years, visit http://www.buddyemmons.com and see http://www.buddyemmons.com/fun_stuff.htm ...I think it will be fun, like he said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Emmons
Lynn started out as a regular singer on The Lawrence Welk Show as "The Country Gal" during the 1967-68 season and occasionally afterward, which helped to propel her way to success and Columbia Records in 1970, where the Rose Garden album was released.
Her song was sampled and featured prominently in the KonKan song I Beg Your Pardon and was widely covered. Rose Garden was a huge crossover on the pop charts as well. It seemed to cheer people up who were trying to get away from Vietnam and it was upbeat. It was also unusual as it was written for a male vocalist and the line about I could promise lots of things and cheap diamond rings seemed out of character to her management. Times and attitudes were changing in the early 70s and it seemed to matter little to the public, who made the album a platinum RIAA certified album (Tammy Wynette had similar sales at about the same time but there was no platinum title for country music then and RIAA promptly created it and gave an award to both).
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Next, a man you can recognize in the sound of country itself...steel guitar player and manufacturer Buddy Emmons. Buddy was the Bud in Sho-Bud, a prominent steel guitar maker that he co-founded in 1956 which innovated changes in the split-pedal mechanism and tuning changes that are standard today. Emmons' lightning quick, stylish riffs and distinctive tuning made him a legend and you hear his riffs all over classic country songs and also jazz from the sixties until his retirement in 2007. He learned to play country style while listening to the radio in Hawaii.
When you hear old country, chances are good you hear Buddy. He toured with the greats: Little Jimmy Dickens, Ernest Tubb and The Texas Troubadours, Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys (where he both innovated the ten string steel and started Emmons Guitar Company after leaving Sho-Bud), George Jones and got his career back on track after problems with booze and pills when Roger Miller hired him. He recorded a tribute album to Bob Wills and western swing that was well received and left session work in 1991 for tours with the Everly brothers, until playing injuries made him take time off to recover in 2001. He didn't return to the scene much after that, attending slide guitar clinic and small performances occasionally until his wife passed away in 2007 and he retired.
Buddy (Buddie) Gene Emmons was 78 years old when he passed away July 30. Those who knew him or were inspired by him called it a great tragedy and loss to music.
Some postscripts: welkgirls.com actually updated Lynn's bio page to show she passed away with a one line sentence within a day of her death, something you don't seem to see often.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Anderson
http://www.lynnandersonshow.com/splashpage/
If you want to hear some mp3s and one or two Real Audio files of Buddy playing over fifty years, visit http://www.buddyemmons.com and see http://www.buddyemmons.com/fun_stuff.htm ...I think it will be fun, like he said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Emmons
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