Pedal steel guitar virtuoso, composer, and improviser Susan Alcorn, who played an important role in broadening the horizons of the instrument beyond country, Hawaiian music, and traditional folk music ...

Jackson native Joe Wright laughs as he tells a story that shows how unfamiliar some music fans are with the type of guitar that he has played since he was a teenager. "Man, I love the way you play ...

Jerry Fessenden builds a pedal steel guitar in his Montpelier workshop Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur “This is a horrible little shop,” Jerry Fessenden says as he opens the door to a shack abutting the ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

ORANGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- In this one-room sanctuary on a suburban New Jersey street, a rock-and-roll icon was born. It was in the House of God church in the '80s and '90s a young Robert Randolph ...

“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 ...