Steel guitarist Pete Finney, the Nashville-based musician who has toured with the likes of Vince Gill, the Judds, Reba McEntire, the Chicks, and the Monkees, has died at the age of 70.
The news was announced by Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. “Steel guitarist Pete Finney, who died Saturday at age seventy, was a widely admired Nashville musician,” reads the statement. “He exemplified how top instrumentalists can adapt to a remarkable range of styles and settings, whether in a recording studio, a concert stage, or the corner of a small nightclub.