ASPEN – Rock ‘n’ roll – especially the kind driven by the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll instrument, the electric six-string guitar – may have seen its glory days pass by. Sure, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks ...
HUNTINGTON -- In a recent interview with The Herald Dispatch, country music star Marty Stuart talked about the inclusion of six different steel guitar players on his latest Grammy-winning album, ...
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 ...
Early in Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon, Steve Fishell’s deft and lively biography, we meet the future legend as a skinny, high school-hating 14-year-old boy on his bike, hanging around outside a bar ...
A Toledo musician has opened a museum to preserve the history of sacred steel, an African American gospel tradition built ...
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Alan Akaka is a master at producing haunting melodies and harmonies on the Hawaiian Steel Guitar. As the eight-stringed instrument rests on his lap, he glides a ...
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, ...
A lap steel guitar is a compact guitar played in a horizontal position, either in the player’s lap — hence the name — or on a stand or table. Players use a slide known as a tone bar to fret the ...
Susan Alcorn first learned her way around the pedal steel guitar by playing the usual stuff — country songs where the pedal steel’s glissando was meant to evoke the viscosity of teardrops. Now, ...
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