Pete moved to Nashville inВ 1959, leaving the family in Atlanta until he got established. The Sons of the South included future country music superstars Jerry Reed, Doug Kershaw, Roger Miller, Joe South, Jack Greene and sometimes Dick Van Dyke.Д¬lick here to view photos of a young Pete Drake. DrakeвЂ™s melodic steel guitar playing made him one of AtlantaвЂ™s top young instrumentalists. Pete and his band were featured onВ WLWA in Atlanta and WTJH in East Point, Georgia. A year later, he started playing professionally with his own band, вЂњThe Sons of the SouthвЂќ in the 1950s. Fashioning his own pedal guitar, Pete became of one AtlantaвЂ™s first pedal steel guitarists. Further inspiration came a few years later from hearing Webb PierceвЂ™s 1953 recording of вЂњSlowly,вЂќ on which steel guitarist Bud Issacs achieved note bending effects with a pedal-activated, pitch-altering mechanism on his guitar. By the age of 19, he was working as a bread truck driver, a grocery store managerВ and learning to play the guitar in his spare time. He returned to Atlanta and built his ownВ steel guitar, and later bought a used single neckВ for $38 in the local pawn shop and began to teach himself to play. Bill followed soon afterwards but grew tired of the road and decided to move to California where he played guitar in clubs and became a DJ.ДuringВ PeteвЂ™sВ visits to NashvilleВ at the age of 18, he wasВ fascinated by the steel guitar sounds of Jerry Byrd. Jack Drake left Atlanta and moved to NashvilleВ to play upright bass for Ernest Tubb as a Texas Troubadour, a position he kept for 24 years. His brothers,В Bill and Jack Drake, sang mostly in churches in the Atlanta area and were known as The Drake Brothers. His dad, Brother Johnny, was a Pentecostal preacher and his mother Nora was a housewife. Pete was born Roddis Franklin DrakeВ in Augusta, Georgia, on OctoberВ 8, 1932 to Nora Blevins Drake and John Drake. When he wasnвЂ™t playing steel guitar for another producer, he could be found in his own studioВ вЂњPeteвЂ™s PlaceвЂќ at 809 18th Avenue South producingВ artists for hisВ First Generation Record label. He was also in high demand for recording sessions. His duties as a business executive, record producer andВ musician meant he was constantly on the go.В Pete was the president ofВ the Pete Drake Music Group which consisted ofВ the Window Music Publishing Company, Tomake Music Publishing, Petewood Music andВ the record label First Generation Records. Pete Drake was one of the busiest Music Men in вЂњMusic CityвЂќ in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

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