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Ben Keith

Ben Keith is credited on 1,578 releases across 185 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1963–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,578

Pressings credited

185

Albums

Decades active

1,162

In collections

Biography

Bennett Keith Schaeufele (March 6, 1937–July 26, 2010), better known by his stage name Ben Keith, was an American musician and record producer. Known primarily for his work as a pedal steel guitarist with Neil Young, Keith was a fixture of the Nashville country music community in the 1950s and 1960s before working with numerous successful rock, country and pop artists as both a producer and versatile, multi-instrumentalist sideman for over four decades. Neil Young affectionately referred to him as "Long Grain" (a joking word play reference to a variety of Uncle Ben's Rice and to Ben's height). Keith was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2014.

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