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. Pedal steels ...

Jerry Fessenden builds a pedal steel guitar in his Montpelier workshop Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur “This is a horrible little shop,” Jerry Fessenden says as he opens the door to a shack abutting the ...

A nine-track survey compiled by Nashville-based player Luke Schneider shows the many faces of this drowsy, languid instrument There are few instruments that suit a hot day better than the pedal steel ...

Lloyd Green, one of the most accomplished musicians ever to come out of Mobile, has held his share of spotlights over the last half-century — but an album released earlier this year comes close to ...

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 ...

Take it on faith and go to the end of Legion Drive, a tiny road off of FM 78 in Converse. It dead ends at American Legion Post 593. Inside the post’s Marty Frank Memorial Hall, a handful of steel ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...