Susan Alcorn first learned her way around the pedal steel guitar by playing the usual stuff — country songs where the pedal steel’s glissando was meant to evoke the viscosity of teardrops. Now, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Weldon Myrick, who died yesterday in Nashville at age 76, was one of the great lyric poets of the pedal-steel guitar. A consummate technician who did some of his best work backing such country singers ...

Early in Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon, Steve Fishell’s deft and lively biography, we meet the future legend as a skinny, high school-hating 14-year-old boy on his bike, hanging around outside a bar ...