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This is FRESH AIR. Pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn started out in East Texas country and Western bar bands, but she heard a larger role for the pedal steel beyond country music. That led her to ...

One of the staples of country music, the pedal steel guitar, takes center stage this weekend at an annual music convention being held for the 15th year-in-a- row in Norwalk. The Pedal Steel Guitar ...

Randolph began playing the steel guitar at the age of 16 in 1994, when Chuck Campbell, pedal steel player in the Sacred Steel unit the Campbell Brothers, bought him a $60 six-string lap steel model.

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 ...

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 ...