"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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

My old pedal steel guitar player, Bo Borland, is picking in some pretty good company these days. I met Bo in 1978. I’d started a band that included steel guitar guru Winnie Winston in 1977, but ...

Pedal steel guitar requires a musician to use both hands and both feet — the classic image of a pedal-pusher is a guy hunched over the box, wavering a bar over the fretboard with his left hand ...

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.

B.J. Cole, the British pedal-steel guitar player, has been knocking around the music business for more than 40 years, called in to add a distinctive flair to someone else's record ...

Buddy Emmons, at 78; innovator on pedal steel guitar By Terence McArdle Washington Post,August 11, 2015, 10:17 p.m.

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: the basics Long the identifying sound of traditional country music, the pedal steel guitar is an electric stringed instrument that sits horizontally on four legs. It can have ...

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.