"There's a real resurgence in the steel guitar," says show organizer Chuck Lettes, who's played pedal steel for the past forty years. "It's not just the Nashville sound anymore.

When you sit down on the pedal steel and try to play it, it’s like a wall; it is so anti-intuitive to figure out.” Visually, pedal steel looks like a boxy guitar laid flat on its back.

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 ...

Raleigh 919-829-0230 www.nicepricebooksandrecords.com In 2012, Nathan Golub had been playing the pedal steel guitar for four years, methodically learning new techniques, tricks and licks.

Though its roots come from the guitar, this version of the instrument has the ability to do much more. Here in Kansas City, Russ Wever teaches up-and-coming pedal steel players.

Robert's pedal steel guitar is a 12-string. "Robert has the fastest hands, I think, of all the steel players I've ever seen," says Deacon Mike Randolph, Robert's uncle.

The pedal steel guitar is played seated with a slide bar and finger picks and is a staple in traditional country music arrangements. Headliners at the Norwalk celebration this year include Lonnie ...

The pedal steel guitar had evolved from the Hawaiian lap steel guitar. With both types, the guitarist plays the melody by sliding a bar over the strings while picking with his other hand.

Slide guitar led to the dobro, then Hawaiian guitar, and finally pedal steel—amplified strings built into a wide neck on a stand, fretted slide-style with a bullet-like metal bar, and further ...

Pedal steel guitar player Buck Reid, who's been a member of Lyle Lovett's Large Band for two decades, is one of the headliners at the Steel Guitar Celebration in Norwalk on Nov. 10.

Steel Panther Unveil New Guitar Pedal ‘Poontang Boomerang’ After ‘P—y Melter’ Resale Is Banned Lauryn Schaffner Published: March 13, 2019 PFA Media ...

"The pedal steel is really simply a horizontal guitar tuned to a chord with pedals and knee levers that allow you to alter the chord that it's tuned to," Steve explains. "It's basically tuned to an ...