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 ...

NEW TODAY, A MAN FROM THE TRIAD IS GETTING THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME. HE’S GOING ON TOUR WITH CIRQUE DU SOLEIL. STAR CONNOR JOINED US NOW, SO STAR, WHAT WILL HE BE DOING IN THESE NATIONAL AND ...

Today, the Spotlight shines On the innovative pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn. While Susan got her start playing in country & western bands in Texas, she has taken the pedal steel into new and ...

WHO: Pedal steel guitar player Noah Faulkner. WHAT: This teenager inserts a country twang into eighties (and beyond) covers for his dog, Kara, and nearly 40,000 Instagram followers. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: ...

John Hughey, renowned session steel guitar player who toured with Vince Gill and Conway Twitty, was born on this day in 1933.

Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...

Emergence, the latest album by the Texas-based Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet, is by and large chamber jazz, veering often into the realms of avant-garde and free improvisation. The standard of ...

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 ...

Traditional country music fans who appreciate the unique sound of a steel guitar should be in tune with the 14th Annual Steel Guitar Show, coming to the Col Ballroom in Davenport from 10 a.m. to 11 ...