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 ...

Buddy Emmons, who died yesterday in Nashville at age 78, achieved the kind of exalted position among musicians and listeners that few instrumentalists in the history of country music have equaled. In ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wesley Webb West—most commonly; Speedy West—is the first known country musician to professionally use a pedal steel guitar.

CARBONDALE The pedal steel guitar, a staple of the country music sound, is a staggeringly complex instrument. Although the numbers vary from instrument to instrument, the pedal steel generally ...

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.

Norwalk becomes the pedal steel guitar capital of Connecticut — and points beyond — when it hosts the 46th annual Steel Guitar Celebration at the Doubletree Hotel on Nov. 10. The Pedal Steel Guitar ...

One of the staples of country music, the pedal steel guitar, takes center stage this weekend at an annual music convention being held for the 15th year-in-a- row in Norwalk. The Pedal Steel Guitar ...

Take it on faith and go to the end of Legion Drive, a tiny road off of FM 78 in Converse. It dead ends at American Legion Post 593. Inside the post’s Marty Frank Memorial Hall, a handful of steel ...

(KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) - Nate Hofer grew up in Eudora, Kansas, within sight of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, a sprawling complex that was once the largest smokeless gunpowder plant in the world.