Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...

Joe Goldmark may boast a staggering record collection, be a partner in a famously ecumenical record store and play all kinds of pop music on his pedal steel guitar, but he admits his musical passions ...

When Alabama Music Hall of Famer Don Davis was a child in the late 1930s, a country music band played at his school in Satsuma. One of its members leaned over a flat keyboard that he plucked -- a ...

After a brief flirtation with the mainstream, Houston’s Chris Whitley carved one of rock’s more fascinating paths. It’s time ...

Don Helms, the steel guitarist whose aching instrumental cry gave musical voice to the anguish and the joy in virtually all the key recordings by country music titan Hank Williams, died Monday in ...

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’ ...