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Jimmy Day: Willie’s last steel player
From the American-Statesman, July 2007:
“Steel legend Buddy Emmons, the Magic Johnson to Jimmy Day’s Larry Bird in Nashville session iconography, once said that Day was the only steel guitar player he’d ever heard who was impossible to copy because his playing captured his feelings at the moment. When Day left Willie’s band in 1971, after clashing with drummer/road manager Paul English, Nelson retired the steel guitar position because, as Nelson’s nephew Freddy Fletcher says, “After Jimmy Day, who are you gonna get?”
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