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.

One pedal steel player by the name of Asher Roseman is answering that question for us. He’s doing the Lord’s work and letting the world know how songs from all different corners of the musical ...

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

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.

“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 ...

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 ...