In 2012, Nathan Golub had been playing the pedal steel guitar for four years ... He soon realized, however, he couldn’t plug the 20-string electric beast through a powerful amplifier in a ...

Stretching the electric guitar across his tiny knees for the first time, using a D-cell battery as his slide, he traced the hymns his mother sang. Hickman soon graduated to the pedal steel ...

Mr. Emmons — commonly known in Nashville as "the Big E" — was known for fast and flashy string work ... and the Swing Shift Band. The pedal steel guitar had evolved from the Hawaiian lap ...

Bandleader Alvino Rey, a guitar ... and a string of novelty tunes, has died. He was 95. Rey, who also was influential in the development of early electric guitars and the pedal steel guitar ...

Livingston, who appears Saturday, Dec. 19, at Viva Cantina as part of former Burbank Mayor Michael Hastings’ band, is universally regarded as one of the very finest pedal steel guitar players ...