Robert Randolph had no plans or dreams to take his fiery talents on the pedal steel guitar beyond the New Jersey church where ...

Joe Goldmark has made the steel guitar his mission in life. He is not just a player, though he's one of the best in town, but he also wrote a book about it, collects recording and makes records of his ...

KAILUA, Hawaii — Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning ...

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 ...

The steel guitar is the most distinguishable feature of country music – and many would regard Buddy Emmons, who played on thousands of records, as its greatest exponent. Buddy Gene Emmons was born in ...

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Daniel Lanois leads the way down a curving staircase into a dimly lighted chamber of his old Silver Lake mansion. Instruments and electronic equipment, including his first polyphonic synthesizer, ...

The spring of 2002 was a good one for Denny Mathis: The Texas Steel Guitar Association inducted the San Antonio legend into its Hall of Fame, an honor Mathis earned by spending the past 40 years in ...

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Say the words ‘instrumental guitar’, and music fans of a certain age might think of Hank Marvin; your longtime guitar fan will probably throw out the names of OG shredders like Joe Satriani and Yngwie ...