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 ...

Sonny Curtis, longtime sideman and steel guitar player for George Jones and Tammy Wynette, died on this day in 2019.

Classic country is on the bill this Saturday for t Revival 02. Based on the response to the first gathering of musicians paying tribute to t Sound, the event returns to the Rustic Rail. Like the first ...

MONTPELIER Jerry Fessenden feels that he was born for the pedal steel guitar. "It was something about the way my mother carried me in the womb," said the 62-year-old musician and instrument builder.

Lucas, who was born in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lived until he was 4, plans to move back to the nation’s country music ...

“Memorial” isn’t a record that Rich Hinman needed to make. The Salem multi-instrumentalist already has a busy career playing guitar and pedal steel as a sideman for Josh Ritter, Rosanne Cash and Sara ...

NEW TODAY, A MAN FROM THE TRIAD IS GETTING THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME. HE’S GOING ON TOUR WITH CIRQUE DU SOLEIL. STAR CONNOR JOINED US NOW, SO STAR, WHAT WILL HE BE DOING IN THESE NATIONAL AND ...

The pure products of America go crazy.—William Carlos Williams ALTHOUGH IT MAY BE HARD TO REMEMBER in this age of mass-marketed commodity entertainment, the history of American music is constellated ...

Nate Hofer inside the Atlas F missile base near Wilson, Kansas, where he recorded "Decommissioned." Nate Hofer grew up in Eudora within sight of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, a sprawling ...

Nate Hofer inside the Atlas F missile base near Wilson, Kansas, where he recorded "Decommissioned." Kansas City musician Nate Hofer took his pedal steel guitar 30 feet down into an inter-continental ...