When you hear steel guitar in a song, it’s usually used as supplemental instrumentation, adding texture to the tunes. You generally don’t expect to see the men and women of steel in the forefront, and ...
The topic for today's WFUV Question of the Day comes from listener Dylan from Bellmore. She wants to hear a set of your favorite songs featuring the pedal steel guitar. Let's include the lap steel, ...
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This 16-year-old from Austin, Texas, plays New Wave and post-punk hits with his brother and dog beside him. This week, his first EP, “Texas Madness,” comes out. By Stephen Deusner Like many American ...
Stephen Inglis and Barry Sless perform Hawaiian songs, originals and favorites by the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan. Courtesy photo Grammy-nominated Hawaiian slack key guitarist Stephen Inglis and ...
The Blackberry Smoke guitarist gives us a lesson in how to sound like you've got a B-Bender, even if you don't ...
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 ...
In Pound For The Sound, we get technical with local musicians about what gear they use to create their signature tones. Jon Rauhouse, a.k.a. “Mr. Orchid Fingers,” is a veteran multi-instrumentalist ...
Susan Alcorn first learned her way around the pedal steel guitar by playing the usual stuff — country songs where the pedal steel’s glissando was meant to evoke the viscosity of teardrops. Now, ...
My old pedal steel guitar player, Bo Borland, is picking in some pretty good company these days. I met Bo in 1978. I’d started a band that included steel guitar guru Winnie Winston in 1977, but was ...