Slash is one of the most recognisable musicians on the planet: he has a look, he has a sound, but he isn't done challenging himself. Far from it; he's been learning one of the most challenging ...

The pure products of America go crazy.—William Carlos Williams ALTHOUGH IT MAY BE HARD TO REMEMBER in this age of mass-marketed commodity entertainment, the history of American music is constellated ...

MONTPELIER Jerry Fessenden feels that he was born for the pedal steel guitar. "It was something about the way my mother carried me in the womb," said the 62-year-old musician and instrument builder.

CHAMPAIGN – Even as a kid, Dave Easley knew he wanted to play pedal steel guitar. Most people would advise to start on guitar first, and that's what he did, at age 13. He remained intent on the steel ...

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 ...

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, ...

Going back decades in Austin, there’ve been stories people tell that are so incredible and improbable they’d seem like fiction if not for the qualifier: “It happened during South by Southwest.” But it ...