CARBONDALE The pedal steel guitar, a staple of the country music sound, is a staggeringly complex instrument. Although the numbers vary from instrument to instrument, the pedal steel generally ...

“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 ...

On this day (September 16) in 1928, Ralph Mooney was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. He fell in love with the steel guitar at a young age and went on to have a legendary career in country music. Over the ...

This 16-year-old from Austin, Texas, plays New Wave and post-punk hits with his brother and dog beside him. This week, his first EP, “Texas Madness,” comes out. By Stephen Deusner Like many American ...

As the Cruel World festival descends on Los Angeles next month, a slew of vintage T-shirts featuring retro acts such as Duran Duran and the Cure will, too. But perhaps the coolest audience flex might ...

Jonny Campos thought there had been a nice arc to his solo project Weeks Island. When the Lost Bayou Ramblers went on hiatus in 2018, Campos, who plays guitar in the band, recorded “Droste,” a ...

Before 1999, when Arhoolie Records in El Cerrito began issuing recordings of "sacred steel" music, few outside the little-known House of God network of Pentecostal churches had heard the blistering, ...

Buddy Emmons, who died yesterday in Nashville at age 78, achieved the kind of exalted position among musicians and listeners that few instrumentalists in the history of country music have equaled. In ...

“Paul Franklin is one of the absolute masters of the pedal steel,” Chris Shiflett says during the opening of Walking the Floor‘s newest episode. “When I asked him to name some of the artists he’s ...

(KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) - Nate Hofer grew up in Eudora, Kansas, within sight of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, a sprawling complex that was once the largest smokeless gunpowder plant in the world.