In additon to his lengthy solo discography, Derringer, who died Monday in Ormond Beach, also contributed to work by an array of rock and pop icons.

Even before they forged their union to supercharge guitar rock, Page and Robert Plant bonded over a folk singer.

Siblings, Will and Dawn Jackson, grandson and granddaughter of Shot Jackson, have reacquired the Sho-Bud name after decades of building under the Jackson Steel Guitar Company with their father ...

With its greasy slide, bass solo and Randolph yelps ... a quarter century since Randolph began blending gospel with pedal steel guitar, known as the sacred-steel style. Since then he’s recorded ...

Steel guitar has 10 strings on it, and it’s got four floor pedals and five knee levers. You’ve got a volume control, so you’re working both feet, both knees and both hands, all at the same time.

By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who pushed the pedal steel guitar ... She took up guitar when she was about 12, developing an affinity for the slide guitar ...

Perhaps more than any other pedal steel guitarist before her ... it was her love of Muddy Waters that decided her to pursue slide guitar. Her inability to sightread was an obstacle to her studying ...

She started playing guitar at age 12 and began experimenting with slide guitar as a teen after randomly meeting Muddy Waters; by adulthood she had switched to the pedal steel.

About 12 minutes into an epic rendition of the Allman Brothers Band instrumental “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” on Sunday night at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, Duane Betts leaned back during his ...

Ronnie Wood’s plaintive pedal steel guitar work on “Far Away Eyes ... very helpful. A lot of slide guitar, too. It was working very well together.” ...

There are also holy grails in the world of effects pedals — the devices that can radically change the sound of any guitar rig by adding echoes, howls, snarls, whooshes and whirls with a stomp of ...