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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tickets: $17.50 on Friday (includes hors d'oeuvres) and $30 Saturday (includes dinner); call (937) 322-0397. SPRINGFIELD — It was 1971, and Wayne Hobbs had just been hired to back Jerry Lee Lewis on ...

Is Hawaiian steel guitar the most endangered of the instruments associated with contemporary Hawaiian music? You wouldn’t know it from the number of CDs that Hawaii’s major steel guitarists have ...

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, ...

Musician Buddy Emmons, widely regarded as the world’s foremost steel guitarist, hailed for his unique playing style and innovations with regard to tuning, has died at age 78. Born Buddie Gene Emmons ...

KAILUA, Hawaii – 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 ...