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 ...

MONTPELIER Jerry Fessenden feels that he was born for the pedal steel guitar. "It was something about the way my mother carried me in the womb," said the 62-year-old musician and instrument builder.

Buddy Emmons, who died yesterday in Nashville at age 78, achieved the kind of exalted position among musicians and listeners that few instrumentalists in the history of country music have equaled. In ...

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Weldon Myrick, who died yesterday in Nashville at age 76, was one of the great lyric poets of the pedal-steel guitar. A consummate technician who did some of his best work backing such country singers ...

We recently heard from The Revivalists' Zack Feinberg about his trusty Guild Starfire electric guitar but bandmate Ed Williams has something different to show and play for us – two things, in fact.

As the sound of country music has shifted, the emotive whir of its classic instrument has often been sidelined. The complicated antique has found new life in surprising forms. By Grayson Haver Currin ...

An anchor of the classic mid-century Nashville sound, the pedal steel guitar has been a trusted part of the broader pop palette at least since Jerry Garcia added affable, if primitive, pedal steel to ...