Accomplished steel guitar player and producer Robby Turner, who has played with artists including Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, The Highwaymen and Chris Stapleton, died Thursday, Sept. 4, at age 63.

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

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 ...

Robby Turner, the steel guitar legend known in Nashville as the “Man of Steel,” died on Thursday (Sept. 4). He was 63 years old. Turner’s son Bobby Turner confirmed the news on Facebook. “We’re sad, ...

This year is off to a great start for Roger Edgington. The steel guitarist celebrated his 70th birthday in March, marked his 50th wedding anniversary with his wife, Judy, last week, and was inducted ...

Bruce Czarnetzki contends that the steel guitar may be the most difficult of all instruments to play. It needs motion by the hands, feet and knees, with elements of the guitar, piano and violin in its ...

Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning his right thumb, ...

Content to let his steel guitar do his talking for him, Rocky Caple didn't go in much for high jinks on stage. But that didn't mean his bandmates were always of like mind. "Sometimes, in the middle of ...