HUNTINGTON -- In a recent interview with The Herald Dispatch, country music star Marty Stuart talked about the inclusion of six different steel guitar players on his latest Grammy-winning album, ...

ASPEN – Rock ‘n’ roll – especially the kind driven by the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll instrument, the electric six-string guitar – may have seen its glory days pass by. Sure, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks ...

STEEL guitar may be the most endangered of the instruments associated with Hawaiian music. The ukulele is certainly alive and well; you see it everywhere, and Roy Sakuma is presenting his 40th Annual ...

Eighty-nine years ago today, the pedal steel guitarist who changed the sound of country music forever was born.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...