Buddy Emmons was (is?) the old master, no doubt about it. Anybody who could conceive of playing Pachebel's Canon on the pedal steel has to be some kind of genius. Leon McAuliffe was another outstanding player of the old school.

I cannot think of another instrument which can sound so trite in the hands of the unskilled and so sublime in the hands of a true master. Except maybe for the banjo ........

Murray