| Here's Joe Wright warming up in the Sierra room at the convention. Joe used to live not far from me in Michigan until he moved back to Tennessee. He gave me my first lesson on pedal-steel guitar. Joe is a high-energy genius of the guitar, irreverent and brutally honest. He can segué from Charley Pride to Deep Purple without even thinking. |  |
 | Here's Carl Dixon of the convention video-crew, whom I met via the internet on Bobby Lee's Pedal Steel Forum. Carl is a warm person, and he's answered a lot of my questions regarding steel guitar. Check out all the autographs on his hat. |