The steel guitar is a fascinating instrument. Most instruments mimic the human voice in one way or another, but the steel guitar sounds all the more alien for how close it can come to forming words ...

The title may not ring a bell and the group might not seem familiar but almost everyone has heard the 1959 instrumental, “Sleep Walk,” which has been used in countless TV shows, commercials and movies ...

Q.My wife would appreciate it if you could locate an audio tape for Sleep Walk by Santo and Johnny. – Anthony Ferri, Delray BeachA.Santo and Johnny was a guitar duo; Santo (Farina) played lead steel ...

THERE WAS NEVER ANY LOGICAL EXPLAnation for “Sleep Walk” why an instrumental steel guitar duet would have even been recorded by two Italian brothers from Brooklyn, never mind why it should have become ...

It was the late 50s, and the lead singer was not yet the alpha species. Instead, as a generation pressed its ear against the speaker of a rickety family radio, or dropped the needle on a prized import ...

Sleepwalking with Santo and Johnny; the child prodigy Debashish Battacharya; Fernando, a great unknown artist; new folk from The Be Good Tanyas; Britain's legendary Nick Lowe; musical trickery from ...

The Number Ones is a new column where I’ll review every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.