The guitar icon shared insights into his guitar style and the origins of his pedal-steel guitar with Guitar Player in 2003 ...

You’ve most certainly heard a pedal steel guitar before, most likely in any ‘old’ country song, or more specifically, any country song that doesn’t include the word ‘truck’ in its lyrics.

If you've ever felt deeply moved or deeply seen by a song's lyrics ... true in country music, where the words seem to pull on your heartstrings a little harder as the steel guitar plays, and ...

By age 14, Barbara was touring as a steel guitar phenomenon with ... one of which was her signature song, written based on her true story: “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool” (1981).

I said, “I would really like things more country. I don’t want orchestra and violins. I want a steel guitar and a fiddle.” That started me having more control of the songs that I recorded.

In the past three months, 22-year-old Chandler Walters of Marietta, Georgia, has eaten steaks as big as his seemingly perpetually smiling face at a songwriting retreat in the U.S. Virgin Islands and ...

There are credible moments of pedal steel guitar, mandolin and fiddle. On the twangy Come Back, Starr even whistles. It’s a country song – a beautiful, lonesome one that will make your heart ...

As a teenager, he started playing “Spanish guitar” – that’s what everybody called acoustic guitars before electric guitars were invented. One day, while he picked the strings with his right hand as ...