Incidentally, I saw Sonny play at the London Palladium with Bill Anderson's Po' Boys in the very early 70's. He was really excellent, and even outshone John Hughey in my mind who was playing on the same show with Conway Twitty. Sonny was playing a rosewood Emmons push pull, which has been his main axe for the last 40 plus years. Interestingly, the chicken pickin' style of pedal steel developed by Lloyd and picked up by Sonny, Weldon, Hal and many others quickly grew out of fashion when Paul Franklin became THE hot player in Nashville in the early 80's. I still love that sound even today. Sonny Garrish has been an exceptionally busy studio player over the past 40 years, and even today is highly sought after because of his imaginative playing. Bobbe Seymour told me once at his store that he had telephoned Sonny the day before on a Sunday, and his wife who took the call said that Sonny was hard at work practising. Seymour couldn't believe that a guy who was so busy playing every day in the studios would need to practise. There is a moral in there.
... maybe it's an age thing!!