From the basements and garages of the heartland came the electric guitar, the electric bass, the five-string banjo, the multitrack tape recorder and the pedal steel guitar. Perhaps it’s our ...

By Alex Williams 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 ...

Gradually, Alcorn built up a reputation as a one-of-a-kind visionary, one whose 2006 composition “And I Await The Resurrection Of The Pedal Steel Guitar” helped spark a renaissance surrounding ...

Nate Hofer inside the Atlas F missile base near Wilson, Kansas, where he recorded "Decommissioned." Kansas City musician Nate Hofer took his pedal steel guitar 30 feet down into an inter ...

Susan Alcorn was 71 years old. After coming to the pedal steel guitar through country bands, Alcorn pursued a solo career in ...

Slash is dipping his toes into the country music world a bit these days. Of course, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist is one of the most well-known lead players in rock and roll history. He is also the lead ...