Pedal steel guitar virtuoso, composer, and improviser Susan Alcorn, who played an important role in broadening the horizons of the instrument beyond country, Hawaiian music, and traditional folk music ...

The multi-instrumentalist Fender fan, who finally settled on guitar, explains where he gets his pop inspiration, why keeping ...

ORANGE, New Jersey -- In this one-room sanctuary on a suburban New Jersey street, a rock-and-roll icon was born. It was in the House of God church in the '80s and '90s a young Robert Randolph learned ...

There’s no mistaking the sounds of pedal steel guitar, and if you’ve heard that classic instrument on popular music within the last decade, chances are you have the talents of Rich Hinman. Many ...

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The legendary musician worked with everyone from Ray Price to Ray Charles while making a complicated instrument seem effortless. He died Wednesday... Buddy Emmons, The Pedal-Steel Guitarist 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 ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

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 ...