This is FRESH AIR. Pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn started out in East Texas country and Western bar bands, but she heard a larger role for the pedal steel beyond country music. That led her to ...

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 music ...

This weekend’s “Steel Guitar Celebration” presented by the Pedal Steel Guitar Association (PSGA) brings leading steel guitar players like the legendary Tom Vollmer, Buck Reid, Cindy Cashdollar, Rob ...

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In 2012, Nathan Golub had been playing the pedal steel guitar for four years, methodically learning new techniques, tricks and licks. A veteran of bluegrass and rock acts, he had joined a country-rock ...

The post Pedal Steel Is Weeping Its Way Out of Country and into the Mainstream appeared first on Consequence. For most, the hard-to-describe but easy-to-spot timbre of the pedal steel evokes ...

One only needs to experience Robert Randolph in all its live glory to know why the pedal steel guitarist is among the rising stars in music. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that some of the friends he has ...

Pedal steel guitar players from all over the country are coming to Norwalk this weekend to participate in the Pedal Steel Guitar Association's Steel Guitar Celebration. The two-day event (which didn't ...

ORANGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- In this one-room sanctuary on a suburban New Jersey street, a rock-and-roll icon was born. It was in the House of God church in the '80s and '90s a young Robert Randolph ...