Pete Drake
October 8, 1932 · Augusta, Georgia — July 29, 1988 · Nashville, Tennessee
pedal steel guitarist · session musician · producer
One of the Nashville session players whose names fill the small print on records you already love. Harrison brought him to London for All Things Must Pass, and when George went back to “I Live for You” thirty years later, Drake’s steel was one of the two things he kept.
known for
- The "talking steel guitar," years before the talk box went rock
- Pedal steel on Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline and George Harrison's All Things Must Pass
- Producing Ringo Starr's Beaucoups of Blues (1970)
- Country Music Hall of Fame, inducted 2022
listen next
- Bob Dylan, "Lay Lady Lay"
- George Harrison, "Behind That Locked Door"
in the gallery
- Forever in Hidden Gems
- I Live for You in Hidden Gems