Nashville Cats: JayDee Maness
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Wednesday, Mar 12, 2025 2:30pm - 4pm
Location
Ford Theater
Details
The museum will feature pedal steel guitarist JayDee Maness in an upcoming program for its in-depth interview series, Nashville Cats. At the outset of his 60-plus-year career, renowned pedal steel guitarist Maness helped sow the seeds of country-rock, recording with the Byrds on their landmark 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo and with Gram Parsons’ International Submarine Band. Additionally, he was a founding member of the Desert Rose Band and toured with Country Music Hall of Fame member Buck Owens’ Buckaroos. Many of music’s biggest names have sought out Maness’ driving, precise style — as a session musician, he has recorded with Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Rod Stewart, Dwight Yoakam and Country Music Hall of Fame members Vince Gill, Ray Stevens and Tanya Tucker, among many others. Among
