Blog: Hidden Track

Interview: Buddy Cage of the New Riders

Interview: Buddy Cage of the New Riders For a music fan, sitting down for a cup of coffee in the East Village with Buddy Cage beats anything a trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or reading a Robert Greenfield book could possibly offer to them. Not to take anything away from either of those experiences, but as a self-proclaimed "lifelong freelancer" who for years served as Jerry Garcia's hand-picked fill-in on his original pedal steel side-project, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and has long been known as a first-call steel player, performing on albums [...]