Junior Brown - My Wife Thinks You're Dead

[Emrys]

The instrument he's playing is called the guit-steel, and it's his own invention, allowing him to switch between electric guitar and lap steel easily as the song requires it.

Here's a live version of that song (the acoustic guitarist in the band is his wife, Tanya Rae Brown, also his co-songwriter - you may recognize her from the video above):

Over his long career, Junior earned the nickname "The Hillbilly Hendrix" - and as these next videos show, with good reason.

Here's "Sugar Foot Rag" at a blistering pace:

And here he is, ripping it up with his hellraising "Rock & Roll Medley":

There's plenty more of his music on YouTube. He's still going strong and touring, and for the guitar geeks (like me), here he is in 2020 introducing another invention of his, the pedal guit-steel: