http://www.thisdayincountrymusic.comUpdated daily to provide up-to-date information.Pedal steel guitarist, Buddy Emmons died of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee. He was widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day and was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1980. He recorded with artists including Linda Ronstadt, The Everly Brothers, Ernest Tubb, John Hartford, Ray Price, Judy Collins, and Ray Charles.http://thisdayincountrymusic.com/onthisday.php?factid=2840http://thisdayincountrymusic.com/onthisday.php?factid=2840Born on this day in Copper Creek, Virginia, was Country music musician, singer and songwriter Sara Carter, lead singer on most of the recordings of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s. Carter was inducted as part of the Carter Family in the Country Music Hall of Famein 1970 along with Bill Monroe. In 1993, her image appeared on a US postage stamp honoring the Carter Family. Carter died on Jan 8th 1979 aged 80.http://thisdayincountrymusic.com/onthisday.php?factid=1281http://thisdayincountrymusic.com/onthisday.php?factid=1281