The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who pushed the pedal steel guitar, an instrument more often associated with the country music roadhouse, into the avant-garde, died Friday in ...

Nate Hofer inside the Atlas F missile base near Wilson, Kansas, where he recorded "Decommissioned." Nate Hofer grew up in Eudora within sight of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, a sprawling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nothing cries as convincingly as a pedal steel guitar. While that sound breaths emotion into Hawaiian, country, and even rock n’ roll music on occasion, it is more often associated with Nashville than ...

I’ve always been fascinated by the pedal steel guitar. Used in a wide variety of music, the steel guitar’s glorious sound can make listeners thirsty for a Budweiser, dance a Cajun two step and cry in ...

Buddy Emmons, an innovative pedal steel guitarist who toured with the Everly Brothers, Ray Price and Ernest Tubb and was one of the first to bring the instrument into the jazz and rock genres, died ...

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 ...