Ask Heywood Henson why he loves hosting the Florida Steel Guitar Jam every year and his voice takes on the down-home quality of the instrument itself -- a warm, reverberating timbre that all but ...

For almost eight years, I’ve wanted to write about Jerry Byrd’s Steel Guitar Favorites. “What took so long,” you ask? Well, it doesn’t make the job easy if there are no informative liner notes and ...

**** Various artists, Legends of the Incredible Lap Steel Guitar (Horse Rock Records): Anyone familiar with the Sacred Steel movement, the fiery gospel sounds out of the Church of God in Florida, ...

Red Murrell and his Ozark Play Boys. side 1: I Learned My Lesson Too Late; side 2: Steel Guitar Rag (Atlas RM-121).

With her hands, knees and bare feet set, Beverly Harris picks the strings and slides the metal bar on her new pedal steel guitar. “I got a new one,” she said of her pride and joy. “Listen to that bass ...

Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...