OBITUARY: Ben Keith, Neil Young’s Steel Guitarist: 1937-2010
ben keith Image by jenn l. rob’s brother/cousin it’s in the family, he’s a bit of a rockstar himself… OBITUARY: Ben Keith, Neil Young’s Steel Guitarist: 1937-2010 Ben Keith, the veteran steel guitarist who played on Patsy Cline’s 1961 hit “I Fall to Pieces” before befriending Neil Young and going on to play on more than a dozen of the Canadian rocker’s albums, has died. He was 73. He died of a heart attack, director Jonathan Demme said Tuesday. Demme, who directed Young’s concert films “Neil Young Trunk Show” from earlier this year and 2006′s “Heart of … Read more on All About Jazz Ben Keith, Longtime Neil Young Sideman and Pedal Steel Guitarist, Dead at 73 Filed under: News , R.I.P. Jordi Vidal, Redferns Ben Keith, a longtime sideman for Neil Young , died earlier this month, according to Undercover.com.au . While the actual date and cause of death [...]