The lap steel guitar is an instrument with a fascinating history — albeit one more closely tied to country and Hawaiian music than to blues. Nevertheless, Sonny Rhodes spends much of his time onstage ...

Freddie Roulette, a musician who helped bring the lap steel guitar — an instrument long associated with Hawaiian music — into blues, rock and funk to dazzling effect, died Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022, at ...

Selwyn Birchwood, Florida’s rising young blues fireball, is a guitar and lap steel playing bundle of pure energy. He delivers his original songs with a revival tent preacher’s fervor and a natural ...