The sound of the pedal steel is seductive, but it doesn't come easily. Gibson Hartwell always wanted to learn to play it. Like most guitar players, he was intimidated by the instrument.

1957 GIBSON LG1 vs MARTIN D28 ... I was familiar with finger picks from playing guitar, so that helped when I started playing pedal steel. These are weird, vintage picks a banjo-playing ...

And country music has indeed put pedal steel to excellent use for the better part of a century, but it also inadvertently monopolized steel guitar in the process — until recently, that is.

In the decades to come, he’d work for Gibson guitars and build a line ... electric guitar to emulate some of the sounds of a pedal steel guitar. Parsons’ introduction isn’t long, but he ...

Pedal steel guitar virtuoso, composer, and improviser Susan Alcorn, who played an important role in broadening the horizons of the instrument beyond country, Hawaiian music, and traditional folk ...

Even if you've never held one of his namesake instruments, you may know that Les Paul designed one of the first solid-body electric guitars. Astonishingly, Gibson, which manufactured the guitar ...

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 ...