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Jimmy Day: The Steel Guitar Legend Who Built Willie Nelson’s Sound

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He taught the steel guitar to cry, yet he died pawning the very instrument that made him a legend. Jimmy Day was the quiet architect of the Texas sound, a prodigy who played beside Hank Williams, reshaped Ray Price’s shuffle, and helped Willie Nelson become an outlaw icon—only to be left broke, sick, and forgotten by the business that fed on his genius. This video digs into how a shy kid from the Deep South rewrote the language of the pedal steel, how addiction slowly erased him from the spotlight, and why his sound still haunts every honky-tonk in Texas. If you’ve ever felt a steel guitar cut straight through your chest, you’ve already met Jimmy Day—you just didn’t know his name



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