We break the glass on the pedal cabinet to dig out a long-list of some of the coolest effects from the new Golden Era of ...

Pedal steel and electric guitars ringing out familiar lonesome and winding melodies with bands with names like the Fargo Railroad Company, Ash Gray and the Burners, to Banjo Jen, and Buffalo Ghost ...

But with Susan Alcorn, it was different – when combining all of the elements of the pedal steel guitar to assemble a full instrument, she looked like a magician preparing her props before a show. The ...

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 ...

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 was 71 years old. After coming to the pedal steel guitar through country bands, Alcorn pursued a solo career in which she refined her approach to the instrument on a virtuosic level.

Gradually, Alcorn built up a reputation as a one-of-a-kind visionary, one whose 2006 composition “And I Await The Resurrection Of The Pedal Steel Guitar” helped spark a renaissance surrounding ...

Nate Hofer inside the Atlas F missile base near Wilson, Kansas, where he recorded "Decommissioned." Kansas City musician Nate Hofer took his pedal steel guitar 30 feet down into an inter ...

"I'm pretty nervous, but I'm definitely excited about it," Hickman, who plays the pedal steel guitar, said. The Mount Airy native has been packing his bags for his long tour. "Opportunities like ...

Though the pedal steel guitar is more closely associated with the sliding notes of American country music than Irish slow airs, Murphy marries the two with ethereal effect on Cuimhne Ghlinn.

“Pedal Steel Noah,” as he’s known professionally, taught himself to play guitar at age 9, studying briefly under keyboardist Bukka Allen. By age 11, after taking a single lesson with country ...