Susan Alcorn, photo by Stewart Mostofsky and courtesy of High Zero Foundation After coming to the pedal steel guitar through country bands, Alcorn pursued a solo career in which she refined her ...

Ninety-one years ago today, Merle Haggard's longtime pedal steel player and the man who taught Barbara Mandrell to play was ...

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 ...

“Paul Franklin is one of the absolute masters of the pedal steel,” Chris Shiflett says during the opening of Walking the Floor‘s newest episode. “When I asked him to name some of the artists he’s ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robby Turner, the pedal steel guitarist whose soulful mastery of the instrument is embedded in stardom-redefining songs for Waylon ...

When you hear steel guitar in a song, it’s usually used as supplemental instrumentation, adding texture to the tunes. You generally don’t expect to see the men and women of steel in the forefront, and ...

This 16-year-old from Austin, Texas, plays New Wave and post-punk hits with his brother and dog beside him. This week, his first EP, “Texas Madness,” comes out. By Stephen Deusner Like many American ...