From Nashville's golden era to Gen Z's genre-benders, Sho-Bud bridges past and future in a comeback led by the family who started it all. Siblings, Will and Dawn Jackson, grandson and granddaughter of ...

The new Mastodon EP is an eclectic, psychedelic journey that sees guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds picking up a Sho-Bud 13-string pedal steel guitar. His mastery of the instrument is quickly clear.

I was saddened when I read that Buddy Emmons, the pedal steel guitar innovator, died July 21 at age 78. During my sophomore year at Wilmington College in 1972, my roommate Marty Itzkowitz arrived with ...