Stretching the electric guitar across his tiny knees for the first time, using a D-cell battery as his slide, he traced the hymns his mother sang. Hickman soon graduated to the pedal steel ...

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 ...

let’s do another Rebel Yell’”: Steve Stevens on the new Billy Idol album Randolph sat down with MusicRadar to talk about his reverence for The Slide Brothers, how he coaxed them into making a secular ...

The "Sacred Steel" tradition born in the House of God Church some 80 years ago employed the pedal steel and ... Lonnie Farris is the only slide guitarist here, but this can be forgiven. The Rev. Utah ...

A lap steel guitar is a compact guitar played in a horizontal position, either in the player’s lap — hence the name — or on a stand or table. Players use a slide known as a tone bar to fret ...

The Slide Brothers, standard bearers of the sacred steel tradition ... Cooke is hailed today as the most influential living pedal steel guitar master within the Sacred Steel tradition. Chuck Campbell ...

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.

The addition of pedals made steel guitar a country music staple, while blues and jazz musicians adopted the slide guitar, using a similar gliding technique while holding the guitar upright.

Pedal steel guitar virtuoso ... “I remember how he played his slide guitar and how there was so much emotion and so much raw power all in the space of one single note, and in a way, that ...

WHO: Pedal steel guitar player Noah Faulkner. WHAT: This teenager inserts a country twang into eighties (and beyond) covers for his dog, Kara, and nearly 40,000 Instagram followers. WHY IT’S SO ...