Classic country is on the bill this Saturday for t Revival 02. Based on the response to the first gathering of musicians paying tribute to t Sound, the event returns to the Rustic Rail. Like the first ...

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Sonny Curtis, longtime sideman and steel guitar player for George Jones and Tammy Wynette, died on this day in 2019.

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MONTPELIER Jerry Fessenden feels that he was born for the pedal steel guitar. "It was something about the way my mother carried me in the womb," said the 62-year-old musician and instrument builder.

This is FRESH AIR. Pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn started out in East Texas country and Western bar bands, but she heard a larger role for the pedal steel beyond country music. That led her to ...

Pedal steel guitar players from all over the country are coming to Norwalk this weekend to participate in the Pedal Steel Guitar Association's Steel Guitar Celebration. The two-day event (which didn't ...

In 2012, Nathan Golub had been playing the pedal steel guitar for four years, methodically learning new techniques, tricks and licks. A veteran of bluegrass and rock acts, he had joined a country-rock ...

Jerry Fessenden builds a pedal steel guitar in his Montpelier workshop Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur “This is a horrible little shop,” Jerry Fessenden says as he opens the door to a shack abutting the ...

Norwalk becomes the pedal steel guitar capital of Connecticut — and points beyond — when it hosts the 46th annual Steel Guitar Celebration at the Doubletree Hotel on Nov. 10. The Pedal Steel Guitar ...