Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robby Turner, the pedal steel guitarist whose soulful mastery of the instrument is embedded in stardom-redefining songs for Waylon ...

Growing up on a farm 10 miles east of Springfield, Speedy West first became acquainted with the steel guitar at a young age ...

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.

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Nate Hofer inside the Atlas F missile base near Wilson, Kansas, where he recorded "Decommissioned." Nate Hofer grew up in Eudora within sight of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, a sprawling ...

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 ...

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Ken Champion likes to joke that he hasn’t worked a day since 1969–the year he became a professional musician. In the 70s he played guitar in barnstorming bar bands, and in the 80s he was a journeyman ...

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Robby Turner, the pedal steel guitarist whose soulful mastery of the instrument is embedded in stardom-redefining songs for Waylon Jennings, Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton, has died. He was 63.

(KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) - Nate Hofer grew up in Eudora, Kansas, within sight of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant, a sprawling complex that was once the largest smokeless gunpowder plant in the world.