Newswise — A gift of cattle to the Hawaiian king and Spanish-Mexican cowboys who left their guitars led to the development of the steel guitar—or so the story goes. In the late 1700s, King Kamehameha ...

An anchor of the classic mid-century Nashville sound, the pedal steel guitar has been a trusted part of the broader pop palette at least since Jerry Garcia added affable, if primitive, pedal steel to ...

Fiddles, banjos, and guitars have long been commonplace in country music. However, a pedal steel guitar brings a whole new layer of emotional depth to your favorite country song. First used in ...

Impact Soundworks has released Pedal Steel, a sample library for KONTAKT PLAYER which they describe as featuring a legendary American electric guitar of the same name. They say that the instrument ...

One of the staples of country music, the pedal steel guitar, takes center stage this weekend at an annual music convention being held for the 15th year-in-a- row in Norwalk. The Pedal Steel Guitar ...

Wesley Webb West—most commonly; Speedy West—is the first known country musician to professionally use a pedal steel guitar. Originating in Hawaii in 1885, the original steel guitar came from the hands ...

John Bohlinger is a Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist best known for leading the band on NBC's Nashville Star, serving as music director for the CMT Awards and specials on PBS and GAC, and of ...

Local musician Russ Wever has been playing the pedal steel guitar for more than forty years. He's performed at the Grand Ole Opry and on Broadway, and has had a big influence in the pedal steel guitar ...

An anchor of the classic mid-century Nashville sound, the pedal steel guitar has been a trusted part of the broader pop palette at least since Jerry Garcia added affable, if primitive, pedal steel to ...

Eddie Gray, the guitarist of the band Tommy James and the Shondells, using a Sho-Bud pedal steel guitar during a recording session for their track 'Crimson and Clover', 30th October 1968. | Credit: ...

Like the Woody Guthrie of the 21st century, Jay Farrar’s timing for music as medicine is tediously perfect with the new Agent Orange Presidency, and as torn a country as this 38-year-old privileged ...