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player who wandered Texas and New Mexico in the late 1960s-early 1970s, and one of the first that Allen heard use the instrument for

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reissued "Pedal Steal" by itself on

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in 2006.

Track listing

#"Pedal Steel" #"Fenceline" #"Rodar Parar Atras" #"Rollback" #"Figure Ate" #"Home on the Range" #"Further Away" #"French Home"

References

{{Authority control 1988 albums Terry Allen (artist) albums Sugar Hill Records albums