The steel guitar is a fascinating instrument. Most instruments mimic the human voice in one way or another, but the steel guitar sounds all the more alien for how close it can come to forming words ...

THERE WAS NEVER ANY LOGICAL EXPLAnation for “Sleep Walk” why an instrumental steel guitar duet would have even been recorded by two Italian brothers from Brooklyn, never mind why it should have become ...

The title may not ring a bell and the group might not seem familiar but almost everyone has heard the 1959 instrumental, “Sleep Walk,” which has been used in countless TV shows, commercials and movies ...

The Number Ones is a new column where I’ll review every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.