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Music Review: 'Steel Guitar Jazz' from Buddy Emmons

Fresh Air | By Kevin Whitehead

Published June 9, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Steel Guitar Jazz, the reissue of a 1963 album by Buddy Emmons.

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