Mr. Smith is a musician and the author of “The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American ...

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2025. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week, with Martin Luther King Day plus ...

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 ...

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

From top-left to bottom-right: May Kershaw, Tyler Hyde, Lewis Evans, Charlie Wayne, Luke Mark, Georgia Ellery ...

Ex-Beatle and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ringo Starr on his countrified "Look Up" and the inspiration collaborations and ...

Flowing mullets, some twanging pedal steel guitars and cowboy boots turned the Fisher Center for Performing Arts into a ...

The rhythmic sense that made Ringo a great rock drummer guides his vocals here. The result is relaxed authority that usually only a genius like Willie Nelson or Ray Charles can make sound so easy.

At just 23, Max McNown has already established himself as one of country music's most exciting new talents. Born in Oregon and shaped by personal challenges, including his brother's battle with cancer ...

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 ...

Even Starr’s fake Southern accent has lost the gusto it had on Beaucoups of Blues, faltering between drawn-out vowels and ...

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 ...