JayDee Maness

A gifted steel guitarist who has backed up some of the biggest names in country, rock, and pop music in a career that has spanned six decades, Jay Dee Maness was also a witness to some of the first salvos in the country-rock revolution. Maness began playing club dates when he was just 15, and in 1967 he appeared on Safe at Home, the groundbreaking album from Gram Parsons' International Submarine Band. A year later, when Parsons had joined the Byrds, Maness played on the sessions for their iconic country-rock album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, and later on he would join Byrds bassi...