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 ...
A lap steel guitar is a compact guitar played in a horizontal position, either in the player’s lap — hence the name — or on a stand or table. Players use a slide known as a tone bar to fret the ...
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Steel Guitar Convention rolled back into the Palmetto State Sunday, as musicians, and really anyone with the urge to play some tunes, banded together.
At 94, Robert Fuller has reformed the classic country band he played with in the 1950s and 1960s. Fuller, the sole remaining original member, once opened for country music legend Patsy Cline. The new ...
ORANGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Accomplished steel guitar player and producer Robby Turner, who has played with artists including Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, The Highwaymen and Chris Stapleton, died Thursday, Sept. 4, at age 63.