That special feeling when playing is why Garrish fell in love with the pedal steel guitar. "I get my enjoyment ... It was during the second half of President Carter's term, when the White House ...

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 ...

A 1974 return to Nashville continued his studio work, on LPs by George Strait, Mel Tillis, Gene Watson, June Carter Cash, Ricky Skaggs and many more. Emmons was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall ...

Tex Emery, the master of the pedal steel guitar and the musician who helped ... He played with Wilf Carter, Chet Atkins, the Jordanaires, Gene Autry, Lenny Breau, Don Ho, Don Messer and ...

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.

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 ...

"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. A lot of people ...