HUNTINGTON -- In a recent interview with The Herald Dispatch, country music star Marty Stuart talked about the inclusion of six different steel guitar players on his latest Grammy-winning album, ...

Eighty-nine years ago today, the pedal steel guitarist who changed the sound of country music forever was born.

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, ...

The pedal steel became central to his groundbreaking career.

STEEL guitar may be the most endangered of the instruments associated with Hawaiian music. The ukulele is certainly alive and well; you see it everywhere, and Roy Sakuma is presenting his 40th Annual ...

The house on Rubicon Street may look cookie-cutter, but inside sits the home of the Royal Hawaiian Steel Guitar Hall of Fame & Museum. Steadying himself with a cane, Jimmy Hawton, the museum's 78-year ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Alan Akaka is a master at producing haunting melodies and harmonies on the Hawaiian Steel Guitar. As the eight-stringed instrument rests on his lap, he glides a ...

Early in Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon, Steve Fishell’s deft and lively biography, we meet the future legend as a skinny, high school-hating 14-year-old boy on his bike, hanging around outside a bar ...

A lap steel guitar is a compact guitar played in a horizontal position, either in the player’s lap — hence the name — or on a stand or table. Players use a slide known as a tone bar to fret the ...

The 33-year-old frontman of Robert Randolph & The Family Band has strong roots in gospel music. As a kid, he grew up attending the House of God church in Orange, N.J. That's where he first played the ...