{"id":2864,"date":"2010-07-27T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:48:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:48:37","slug":"pedal-steel-guitar-player-ben-keith-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pedal-steel-guitar-player-ben-keith-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedal Steel-Guitar Player Ben Keith Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/benkeith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/benkeith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Ben Keith with Faron Young and band.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pedal steel-guitar player and producer <strong>Ben Keith<\/strong>, best known for his work with <strong>Neil Young<\/strong>, dating back to the <em>Harvest<\/em> album, has died at 73. There aren&#8217;t a lot of details out on his death, from <a href=\"http:\/\/neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org\/2010\/07\/ben-keith-19xx-2010.html\" target=\"_blank\">what I&#8217;ve read<\/a>. I had no idea Keith&#8217;s career dated back to playing on <strong>Patsy Cline<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;I Fall to Pieces.&#8221;<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U0IN-n5QMDY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Keith with Faron Young and band. Pedal steel-guitar player and producer Ben Keith, best known for his work with Neil Young, dating back to the Harvest album, has died at 73. There aren&#8217;t a lot of details out on his death, from what I&#8217;ve read. I had no idea Keith&#8217;s career dated back to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pedal-steel-guitar-player-ben-keith-dies\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}