Forrest Ray "Bud" Isaacs

Bud Isaacs plays the steel guitar and did so for many years professionally.

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Recording artist, composer, road musician, and pioneer who revolutionized the sound of the steel guitar by his introduction of the pedal-gliss, thereafter establishing the 'moving tone' as the dominant steel expression in country music.

Born: March 26, 1928 Bedford, Indiana Inducted: 1984 into Steel Guitar Hall of Fame

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Forrest Ray “Bud” Isaacs
BIRTH
27 Mar 1928
Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA
DEATH
4 Sep 2016 (aged 88)
Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
BURIAL
Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend
MEMORIAL ID
175175407 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 2
FLOWERS 1
Country musician who was the first to play the pedal steel guitar on a hit record. Isaacs added the foot & knee pedals to the steel guitar in 1953, then shortly afterward, performed on Webb Pierce's 1953 hit "Slowly". Bud Isaacs performed on the Grand Ol'Opry starting in 1950. He was a solo recording artist for RCA in the mid 1950's. He was the steel guitar for such performers as Jimmy Dickens, Red Foley, Jim Reeves, Harkshaw Hawkins, Skeeter Davis, Chet Atkins, Kitty Wells, and many others.

Family Members
Parents

Cecil R. Isaacs
1893–1969

Iva Mae Jaynes Isaacs
1900–1991

Siblings

Dorothy Elma Isaacs Miller
1921–2001

Charles Spencer Isaacs
1930–1961

Robert Andrew Isaacs
1931–1992

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