So he made his way to the pedal steel, a descendant of the Hawaiian slide guitar.There were two challenges with the pedal steel. One was that the instrument was damn hard. Theres all these techniques ...

The secret to playing pedal-steel guitar like Franklin? Don’t focus so much on the pedals. “The left hand: that’s my primary focus,” says Franklin, who began learning to play the ...

When guitarist Jeff Rady, who's played with Strange Americans, Casey James Prestwood, Faceman and other local acts, started learning pedal steel, he noticed that a lot of the instructional videos ...

Pedal steel guitar requires a musician to use both hands and both feet — the classic image of a pedal-pusher is a guy hunched over the box, wavering a bar over the fretboard with his left hand ...

A metal slide, held in the left hand, combined with foot pedals to hold notes, give the instrument it's unique, twangy sound. Robert's pedal steel guitar is a 12-string.

Dawson, 64, died Tuesday of stomach cancer in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, said Buddy Cage, who has played pedal steel guitar with the group since Garcia left in 1971. Advertisement ...

Charleton left the Texas Troubadours in 1973 and moved back to Virginia, where he became a teacher. His students went on to lend their own pedal steel voices to the work of country's biggest stars ...

Vince Gill has been making records since he was a teenager. Paul Franklin plays pedal-steel guitar like few others have. The two country legends have a new album together titled Bakersfield.. It's ...

Rusty Young — co-founder, singer, and multi-instrumentalist with the pioneering country-rock band Poco — died April 14th of a heart attack. Young, who was 75, passed away at his home in ...

Buddy Emmons, an innovative pedal steel guitarist who toured with the Everly Brothers, Ray Price and Ernest Tubb and was one of the first to bring the instrument into the jazz and rock genres ...