Women artists are pushing back against gender stereotypes at the French heavy metal festival Hellfest, where men have long dominated the loud and rebellious genre. With around 60,000 visitors per day, ...

Besides Czarnetzki and other musicians from throughout the Midwest, the featured player will be Ron Elliott, a member of the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame who has played with Hawkshaw Hawkins, Charlie ...

Steel guitar has 10 strings on it, and it’s got four floor pedals and five knee levers. You’ve got a volume control, so you’re working both feet, both knees and both hands, all at the same time.

Susan Alcorn in performance with her quintet in New York City in 2020. A rare female virtuoso on an instrument long dominated by men, she erased genre boundaries for pedal steel guitar.

In 1948, the company introduced a “beginner” set that paired a Hawaiian lap-steel guitar with an amp designed to sit a rung lower than that initial trio. It was dubbed the Champion 800, a name ...

Susan Alcorn, the pioneering pedal steel player who steered the instrument in experimental, improvisational directions, has died. The High Zero Foundation, an experimental music organization and ...

We have to admit, Eric Clapton naming John Mayer as one of his favorite guitar players is a little bit surprising. Not to dunk on Mayer or anything, but he wasn’t exactly shredding during ...

Pedal steel guitar is a strange and complicated instrument. Typically, a shiny steel table with 20 strings on top played with metal picks and a metal slide, plus foot and knee pedals to bend notes.

Kansas City musician Nate Hofer took his pedal steel guitar 30 feet down into an inter-continental ballistic missile silo to record a hopeful reminder that nuclear war is not inevitable.

Dozens of bands, steel guitar players, and fans came for the music, but stayed for the fellowship. The convention started back in 1987 in Saluda, moving to nearby places like Belvedere and Augusta ...

But while the steel guitar can still be found in country and other types of music, the Hawaiian steel guitar garners little recognition today, even on the island of Oahu, its birthplace. That’s ...