Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue ...

A lap steel guitar is a compact guitar played in a horizontal position, either in the player’s lap — hence the name — or on a stand or table. Players use a slide known as a tone bar to fret the ...

For almost eight years, I’ve wanted to write about Jerry Byrd’s Steel Guitar Favorites. “What took so long,” you ask? Well, it doesn’t make the job easy if there are no informative liner notes and ...

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Steel Guitar Convention rolled back into the Palmetto State Sunday, as musicians, and really anyone with the urge to play some tunes, banded together.

DERMOTT, Ark. – Two Chickasaw County steel guitar legends shared billing at the Steelin' The Gospel Steel Guitar Showcase, earlier this month at the Hacketts' Gospel Music Singing Shed, in Dermott, ...

ORANGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- In this one-room sanctuary on a suburban New Jersey street, a rock-and-roll icon was born. It was in the House of God church in the '80s and '90s a young Robert Randolph ...

This year is off to a great start for Roger Edgington. The steel guitarist celebrated his 70th birthday in March, marked his 50th wedding anniversary with his wife, Judy, last week, and was inducted ...

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Cindy Cashdollar has spent a half century playing steel guitar and dobro with everyone from Bob Dylan to Van Morrison. She’s taken home five Grammys for her work with the western swing band Asleep at ...

“I’m talking to somebody from Hawaii Island. Let’s play the ‘Hilo March,’” said Alan Akaka when this writer called him for an interview. Alan is the brother of Danny Kaniela Akaka, and founder of the ...

KAILUA, Hawaii – Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings – wearable guitar picks – adorning ...