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.

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

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).

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 ...

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 ...