Wesley Webb “Speedy” West, 79, an innovative country and western steel guitar player, died of unspecified causes Saturday in Broken Arrow, Okla. He had been in poor health since suffering a stroke in ...
We were in St. Louis, at the 1993 International Steel Guitar Convention, when Speedy Westone of the wildest and most flipped-out cats ever to bar-crash the instrumentwas about to introduce the next ...