Pete Drake’s Talking Steel Guitar

If it were possible to live inside this video, I’d move there tomorrow. Pete Drake, a Nashville mainstay on the pedal steel guitar, first used the “Talk box” on his 1964 album “Forever.” The distinct sound came to be called his “talking steel guitar.” Peter Frampton later made this sound famous on his hit “Show me the way.”

Pete Drake was a record producer, record company founder and musician whose steel guitar playing was heard on hundreds of hit recordings including such gigantic chart toppers as Lynn Anderson’s Rose Garden, Charlie Rich’s Behind Closed Doors, Bob Dylan’s Lay Lady Lay and Tammy Wynette’s Stand By Your Man. He also played his steel guitar on five of Elvis Presley’s movie soundtracks.

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