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 ...

Eighteen years ago today, the country music world lost the legendary steel guitar player who performed with some of the genre's biggest stars ...

The late Pete Drake was a well-known Nashville session player whose pedal steel guitar licks were heard on many of country music’s biggest during the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Songs like George Jones’ ...

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.

CEDAR FALLS — Country music star Wade Hayes will headline opening night Friday at the 29th annual Northeast Iowa Steel Guitar Show. Nashville singer-songwriter Leona Williams with Ron Williams will ...

Bruce Czarnetzki contends that the steel guitar may be the most difficult of all instruments to play. It needs motion by the hands, feet and knees, with elements of the guitar, piano and violin in its ...

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 ...

XENIA, Ohio (WDTN) — One of the most notable steel guitar players and oldest radio broadcasters in the Miami Valley is preparing for his annual show. Ray “Chubby” Howard is the master of the steel ...

CONVERSE — The San Antonio Steel Guitar Association’s monthly steel guitar jam session at American Legion Post 593 features professional, semi-pro and amateur musicians performing together with a ...

FRANKLIN, Ohio — Ray “Chubby” Howard, of Franklin, who was nationally known as a steel guitar player and radio broadcaster, died Dec. 23. He was 95. His love of music started in the 1930s when his ...

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 his right thumb, ...