After the pavement ends—and where some might call God’s country begins—is 76-year-old Del Mullen’s home. “I like it because the freedom that you got,” Mullen said. “I can go outside, and holler and ...

This past Sunday, June 12, Del Mullen, a resident of Kit Carson County, was inducted into the International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame. The induction took place at the 5th annual Denver Steel Guitar ...

An anchor of the classic mid-century Nashville sound, the pedal steel guitar has been a trusted part of the broader pop palette at least since Jerry Garcia added affable, if primitive, pedal steel to ...

With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent. By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who ...

The birth certificate reads Emery Anthony Herperger, but for more than seven decades he went by a simpler moniker: "Tex." Tex Emery, the master of the pedal steel guitar and the musician who helped ...