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Pete Drake

real name Roddis Franklin Drake

steel guitar player

United States · 1932-10-08 – 1988-07-29

Pete Drake is credited on 2,650 releases across 657 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,650

Credits

657

Albums

7

Decades active

1,082

In collections

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American steel-guitar player, record producer, and record-label owner based out of Nashville, Tennessee. For the 1964 release Golden Country Hits on Cumberland Records Pete used Dean Dallas due to contractual restrictions. He also was incorporating his own unique sound as a "Talking Steel Guitar" using the sound of a talking box while playing steel guitar was new in the 1960s, and it made the sounds of vocalizing along with the strings of the steel guitar.
Owner and operator,, and. Inducted in the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame (1990) and the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame (1987). He worked with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Tammy Wynette, Joan Baez, Lynn Anderson, Elvis Presley and many other country and rock stars.
Born: October 8, 1932 in Augusta, Georgia
Died: July 29, 1988 in Nashville, Tennessee

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Credited work

2,650 releases · 657 albums · active 1961–2026

  • Performance · 2,263
  • Production · 928
  • Other credits · 276
  • Engineering · 37

Studios: Pete's Place · Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville · Jack Clement Recording Studios · RCA Victor Studios, Nashville

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