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Nate Hofer inside the Atlas F missile base near Wilson, Kansas, where he recorded "Decommissioned." Nate Hofer grew up in Eudora within sight of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, a sprawling ...

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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.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Influential pedal steel guitarist Buddy Emmons, who recorded with country music greats and toured as a bass player for Roger Miller, has died at age 78, the Nashville ...

Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who pushed the pedal steel guitar, an instrument more often associated with the country music roadhouse, into the avant-garde, died Friday in ...

(KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) - Nate Hofer grew up in Eudora, Kansas, within sight of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, a sprawling complex that was once the largest smokeless gunpowder plant in the world.