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At the outset of his sixty-plus-year career, renowned pedal steel guitarist JayDee 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’s International Submarine Band. Additionally, he was a founding member of the Desert Rose Band and toured with Buck Owens’s Buckaroos. Many of music’s biggest names have sought out Maness’s driving, precise style: as a session musician, he has recorded with Vince Gill, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Ray Stevens, Rod Stewart, Tanya Tucker, Dwight Yoakam, and many others. Among his best-known contributions is the pedal steel solo on Eric Clapton’s multiplatinum 1992 single “Tears in Heaven.” His playing also soundtracked the television series The Dukes of Hazzard throughout its seven-season run. During this program, Maness—an eighteen-time winner of the Academy of Country Music’s Steel Guitar Player of the Year award—will discuss his life and career with the Museum’s Dave Paulson, supplemented with rare photos, audio, and video. Offered in support of the exhibition Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock, presented by City National Bank. Program made possible in part by the Academy of Country Music. Ford Theater. Included with Museum admission. Program ticket required. Free to Museum members.

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