Freddie Roulette, a musician who helped bring the lap steel guitar — an instrument long associated with Hawaiian music — into blues, rock and funk to dazzling effect, died Dec. 24 at his home ...

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 b… ...

Making its debut as part of a Hawaiian lap-steel beginner set, the Champ has become a studio workhorse for blues and rock ...

The pedal steel guitar is, for many, inextricable from its roots in country music — but its well runs much deeper than providing some smooth twang.

The sound of a wailing lap-steel guitar is as synonymous with Hawaiian culture as loud shirts, Dog the Bounty Hunter's mullet... and pineapple chunks on pizza. The new Mahalo MLG1 Lap Steel nails that ...

The sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, of the rock band Larkin Poe, hit up a guitar store before a gig at Webster Hall.

In 1904, Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the Hawaiian steel guitar, left Hawaii to perform on the American West Coast. Newspaper critics called him the “world’s greatest guitar soloist.” Redpath ...

Paul Elie writes about Todd Clinesmith, a world-class maker of steel guitars, whose workshop was destroyed by a wildfire in Douglas County, Oregon, in the fall of 2020.

But Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon is an uplifting book, filled with inspiring music and inspired innovations. That’s the legacy of Emmons, who died in 2015 of heart failure at age 78.