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 ...

Who could have imagined that a few serendipitous events on a remote Pacific island in the 19th century would fundamentally change American music. In 1832 Hawaii's king brought Mexican cowboys to the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wesley Webb West—most commonly; Speedy West—is the first known country musician to professionally use a pedal steel guitar.

Western swing legend Tom "Wolf" Morrell died Tuesday of emphysema at his home in Little Elm, Texas. He was 68. The steel guitarist got his start in the 1950s and played with artists including Willie ...

Nothing cries as convincingly as a pedal steel guitar. While that sound breaths emotion into Hawaiian, country, and even rock n’ roll music on occasion, it is more often associated with Nashville than ...

It sounds like another vocal in the band. It can put you at ease after a hard day’s work or gently whisk you onto the dance floor. You could be spacing out and picking at the label on your beer not ...

In creating the first-of-its-kind instrument, he invented something that helped define his legacy.