# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buddy-emmons
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:31:28.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buddy-emmons"
name: "Buddy Emmons"
slug: "buddy-emmons"
description: "Buddy Gene Emmons was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981. \nAffectionately known by the nickname \"Big E\", Emmons' primary genre was American country music, but he also performed jazz and Western swing. He recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons, The Everly Brothers, The Carpenters, Jackie DeShannon, Roger Miller, Ernest Tubb, John Hartford, Little Jimmy Dickens, Ray Price, Judy Collins, George Strait, John Sebastian, and Ray Charles and was a widely sought session musician in Nashville and Los Angeles."
tagline: "American guitarist (1937–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a6/Buddy_Emmons_Tribute_Album_Cover%2C_%22The_Big_E%22.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1937-01-27"
deathDate: "2015-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.973185333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2465481/"
    handle:    "nm2465481"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.buddyemmons.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/331706"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بادي إمونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بادى امونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Emmons"
    title: "Buddy Emmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Emmons"
    title: "Buddy Emmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Emmons"
    title: "Buddy Emmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Emmons"
    title: "Buddy Emmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Emmons"
    title: "Buddy Emmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DA%88%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بڈی ایمنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/72997c83-ac10-46ad-800a-513d8c2dba5d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1001188"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump