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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Toledo musician has opened a museum to preserve the history of sacred steel, an African American gospel tradition built ...
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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