A Mount Airy native is trying out for "America's Got Talent."Dashawn Hickman shared his excitement for the show and what he hopes to accomplish.Hickman has played the pedal steel guitar since 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 ...

Susan Alcorn, Voyager on Pedal Steel Guitar, Dies at 71 With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent.

Susan Alcorn was 71 years old. After coming to the pedal steel guitar through country bands, Alcorn pursued a solo career in which she refined her approach to the instrument on a virtuosic level.

Susan Alcorn, the pioneering pedal steel player who steered the instrument in experimental, improvisational directions, has died. The High Zero Foundation, an experimental music organization and ...

That quest led him to set up his pedal steel guitar and make a recording down in an intercontinental ballistic missile base near Wilson, Kansas, built to withstand a direct hit from a nuclear weapon.

Kansas City musician Nate Hofer took his pedal steel guitar 30 feet down into an inter-continental ballistic missile silo to record a hopeful reminder that nuclear war is not inevitable.

Local musician from Mount Airy lands dream job playing pedal steel guitar in Cirque Du Soleil Mount Airy native lands pedal steel guitar gig for Cirque Du Soleil ...

Though the pedal steel guitar is more closely associated with the sliding notes of American country music than Irish slow airs, Murphy marries the two with ethereal effect on Cuimhne Ghlinn.

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