Name Jeff Newman Role Musician | Albums Slidin' Smoke | |
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Similar People Mike Auldridge, Lloyd Green, Buddy Emmons, Copedent, Tom Brumley | ||
Jeff Newman (January 7, 1942 – April 7, 2004) was an American country musician who played the pedal steel guitar. He was a veteran Nashville session player. A devoted teacher and player, Newman also wrote a column for the short-lived specialty magazine Steel Guitarist, appearing on the cover of the September 1979 issue. He is widely regarded as having been the premier instructor of the Pedal Steel Guitar and, together with his wife, Fran, operated the Jeffran College of Pedal Steel Guitar outside Nashville for many years. His instructional material remains available and popular as of this writing (2017). Newman was inducted into the International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Also an enthusiastic pilot, Newman died on April 7, 2004 while trying to land an ultralight aircraft on a private runway near Watertown, Tennessee.