Pete Finney, steel guitarist who toured with Patty Loveless and Reba McEntire, dies at 70

""a widely admired Nashville musician,""

""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.""

""notes of melancholy,""

""bring an orchestra's worth of color, texture and shading""

Pete Finney died Saturday at age 70; no cause of death was provided. He toured with Patty Loveless for more than 20 years and recorded with Reba McEntire, the Chicks, Vince Gill, the Judds and many other artists. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum described him as a widely admired Nashville musician who could adapt to a remarkable range of styles and settings. He was born in Maryland in September 1955, played early gigs in Washington, D.C., moved to Austin in the late 1970s and to Nashville in the mid-1980s. He narrowly avoided a 1991 plane crash while touring with Reba McEntire and contributed to recordings across genres.

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