He toured in the Toronto area with Dusty King, and in Ontario with Jack Kingston, and Gary Buck.Īt the age of 24, Neil began the process of moving to Nashville, TN. The success of the two albums gained Neil considerable recognition, both in Canada and the United States. During the ensuing years, he worked with various musicians in Montreal and began making albums of his own, including 1962’s "Neil Flanz and his Nashville Steel", and 1964’s "Get On The Star Route" (recorded in Toronto using an Emmons Stereo pedal steel guitar). Neil's first job as a musician was with Cowboy Jack, a Montreal artist with several country music hits in French. It was the song “Slowly” by Webb Pierce (with Bud Issacs on an early pedal steel guitar called a "tone changer") that convinced him to begin playing with pedals, and he approached steel guitarist George Essery in Montreal to modify his guitar with a pedal. He began playing guitar at the age of 13 when his parents bought him a flat top guitar by the time he was 17, he had moved on to the steel guitar (a double-neck Fender Stringmaster) in order to more closely replicate the sounds he had heard on country records growing up. His musical influences as a child included Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), Wilf Carter, Hawaiian music, and the Grand Ole Opry radio broadcasts. Neil was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has played and toured for over 30 years with artists including Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Charlie Louvin, and Joe Sun. Neil Flanz is a pedal steel guitar player living in Austin, TX.
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