The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

Eighteen years ago today, the country music world lost the legendary steel guitar player who performed with some of the genre's biggest stars ...

Musician Buddy Emmons, widely regarded as the world’s foremost steel guitarist, hailed for his unique playing style and innovations with regard to tuning, has died at age 78. Born Buddie Gene Emmons ...

The late Pete Drake was a well-known Nashville session player whose pedal steel guitar licks were heard on many of country music’s biggest during the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Songs like George Jones’ ...

“I might get kicked off the (online) steel guitar forum next week,” Spencer Cullum Jr. tells Rolling Stone Country. The British steel-guitar wiz is sitting in the tracking room of Nashville go-to ...

At age eleven, country music star Barbara Mandrell was known as “The Princess of Steel” – not for a cold demeanor, but for prowess on the steel guitar. A true prodigy, she could read music and play ...

If you ever tapped your boots to a Waylon Jennings track, sang along to a Highwaymen hit, or felt the raw emotion in a Chris Stapleton ballad, you have been moved by his work. For decades, his was the ...