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 ...

Jackson native Joe Wright laughs as he tells a story that shows how unfamiliar some music fans are with the type of guitar that he has played since he was a teenager. "Man, I love the way you play ...

Pedal steel guitar virtuoso, composer, and improviser Susan Alcorn, who played an important role in broadening the horizons ...

As the sound of country music has shifted, the emotive whir of its classic instrument has often been sidelined. The complicated antique has found new life in surprising forms. By Grayson Haver Currin ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

Musician Douglas Livingston, trained as a classical pianist and obsessed with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach since childhood, nonetheless defected into a distinguished pop music career. A ...

Buddy Emmons, an innovative pedal steel guitarist who toured with the Everly Brothers, Ray Price and Ernest Tubb and was one of the first to bring the instrument into the jazz and rock genres, died ...