The post Pedal Steel Is Weeping Its Way Out of Country and into the Mainstream appeared first on Consequence. For most, the hard-to-describe but easy-to-spot timbre of the pedal steel evokes ...

Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Influential pedal steel guitarist Buddy Emmons, who recorded with country music greats and toured as a bass player for Roger Miller, has died at age 78, the Nashville ...

CONVERSE — The San Antonio Steel Guitar Association’s monthly steel guitar jam session at American Legion Post 593 features professional, semi-pro and amateur musicians performing together with a ...

Early in Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon, Steve Fishell’s deft and lively biography, we meet the future legend as a skinny, high school-hating 14-year-old boy on his bike, hanging around outside a bar ...

The late Pete Drake was a well-known Nashville session player whose pedal steel guitar licks were heard on many of country music’s biggest during the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Songs like George Jones’ ...

Robby Turner, the steel guitar legend known in Nashville as the “Man of Steel,” died on Thursday (Sept. 4). He was 63 years old. Turner’s son Bobby Turner confirmed the news on Facebook. “We’re sad, ...

This year is off to a great start for Roger Edgington. The steel guitarist celebrated his 70th birthday in March, marked his 50th wedding anniversary with his wife, Judy, last week, and was inducted ...

Freddie Roulette, a musician who helped bring the lap steel guitar — an instrument long associated with Hawaiian music — into blues, rock and funk to dazzling effect, died Dec. 24 at his home in ...

The Maui Steel Guitar Festival will present an abbreviated version of their annual event on Oct. 19 at The Shops at Wailea, with steel guitarists including Alan Akaka, Bobby Ingano, Mālie Lyman, Joel ...