Bucky Baxter, who toured with Dylan from 1992-1999, passed away on May 25th at the age of 65. Bucky was instrumental in creating a magical sound on pedal steel guitar (also dobro, steel and slide guitar) during some incredible years of the NET.

From Rolling Stone:
“During a tour with Earle, he met Bob Dylan, who asked Baxter to give him steel guitar lessons. In 1992, he joined Dylan’s band as steel player and multi-instrumentalist, hitting the road on Dylan’s storied Never Ending Tour. Baxter traveled the globe with Dylan through 1999, playing more than 750 shows, including a 1995 MTV Unplugged concert, and adding pedal steel to Dylan’s Grammy-winning 1997 album, Time Out of Mind.
For all his years on the road with Dylan, Baxter says he never tried to strike up a friendship with the reclusive songwriter. “I just worked for him. And we had a good working relationship … but I never went to his house for Thanksgiving or anything,” he told the Dylan fan magazine On the Tracks. “I think that’s why I lasted so long — I conducted myself professionally and let him be. I never bugged him.”
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1. One Irish Rover – Springfield, Illinois, 8/19/1989. This is the first time Bucky played pedal steel guitar with Dylan 0:00
2. Simple Twist of Fate – Perth, Australia, 3/18.1992. This is from Bucky’s first concert after officially joining Dylan’s band 04:16
3. Tryin’ to Get to Heaven – München, Germany, 5/2/1999. This is from Bucky’s last concert with Dylan on the NET 12:17
4. Blowin’ in the Wind – München, Germany, 5/2/1999. The same concert as the previous one and also features Bucky singing backup vocals 17:59:09

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