But for much of its life, it's been synonymous with the wailing cries of country music ... But the pedal steel will likely remain a semi-secret language. Even in the Steel Guitar Forum, the ...

As the sound of country music has ... decided to pursue pedal steel as a way to differentiate himself in a city with a glut of guitarists. He stumbled upon The Steel Guitar Forum, where amateurs ...

Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought ... and how to embrace dissonance on the guitar. One of the ...

“Then with guitars ... because I want to put out a pedal steel record. It's just really for my own personal enjoyment. I don't know how many songs or what songs I could actually put it in, you know?

Whatever fits the song, Randolph’s steel guitars are the glue. Randolph got his start playing sacred steel in church, took it to the blues clubs ... gear and how he wants his pedal steel to sound.

"There's a real resurgence in the steel guitar," says show organizer Chuck Lettes, who's played pedal steel for the past ... A message from Music Editor Emily Ferguson: If you value independent ...

Buddy Emmons, an innovative pedal steel guitarist ... bought him a lap steel guitar and purchased lessons for him at the Hawaiian Conservatory of Music in South Bend. At 13, Mr. Emmons purchased ...

blues, and Rock ‘n’ Roll, and other genres as well,” says Troutman. Before its soft, lilting sound became inseparable from music in the American South, the steel guitar captivated listeners ...

Born Buddie Gene Emmons in Mishawaka, Indiana, and nicknamed “the Big E,” his guitar work was heard ... “It’s a towering loss in the pedal steel community and to music lovers everywhere.” ...

By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who pushed the pedal steel guitar, an instrument more often associated with the country music roadhouse, into the avant-garde ...

Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought the instrument beyond its traditional role in country music, died on Friday ... to the pedal steel guitar through country bands ...