Eighty-nine years ago today, the pedal steel guitarist who changed the sound of country music forever was born.

Born Sept. 4, 1920, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Harold Bradley Jackson moved to Blackshear, Georgia as a child. At some ...

“God gave church people a lot of patience to deal with beginning musicians,” says Robert Randolph in String Episode 340, as he reflects (with no small amount of wonder) on his tutelage on one of the ...

Cedar Springs — When Cedar Springs High School senior Lucas Galloway was younger, his father, a musician, played with some big names in the area’s country music circuit. As a kid, Lucas spent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robby Turner, the pedal steel guitarist whose soulful mastery of the instrument is embedded in stardom-redefining songs for Waylon ...

Robby Turner, the pedal steel guitarist whose soulful mastery of the instrument is embedded in stardom-redefining songs for Waylon Jennings, Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton, has died. He was 63.

In the UK’s revolutionary steel town, Mark learns the newest metal is actually the steel guitar. Mark joins musicians at the Tramlines festival of Sheffield and discovers the newest metal of “Steel ...

SEVIERVILLE — A local business is resurrecting an old brand and helping to rekindle love for a musical instrument that was key to some familiar songs, especially in country music. Emmons Guitar is in ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum® will feature pedal steel guitarist JayDee Maness in an upcoming program for its in-depth interview series, Nashville Cats. The series began in 2006 by ...

With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent. By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who ...

Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought the instrument beyond its traditional role in country music, died on Friday, January 31. Baltimore’s High Zero Foundation shared the news ...

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 ...