The country music ... in country music. Her voice is as authentic as it gets. Her songs celebrate small-town America with equal parts pride and sadness. Fiddles, pedal steel guitars, and the ...

Prodigy is, after all, the term most people would use to describe an 11-year-old who played pedal steel ... songs that decidedly leaned toward the pop side of the country-pop spectrum. That music ...

Rock 'n' roll and country go hand in hand, as shown by these four underrated rock tunes that have influenced our favorite country artists.

Beloved by fans for wringing every drop of emotion out of a ballad, Vince Gill’s best songs ... Hughey’s steel guitar, giving the track a vibrant vintage feel. Gill became country’s favorite ...

If you're looking to dive into classic country music, these songs from some of the genre's most celebrated artists are great starting points.

The guitar icon shared insights into his guitar style and the origins of his pedal-steel guitar with Guitar Player in 2003 ...

You’ve most certainly heard a pedal steel guitar before, most likely in any ‘old’ country song, or more specifically, any country song that doesn’t include the word ‘truck’ in its lyrics.

At age eleven, country music star Barbara Mandrell was known as “The Princess of Steel” – not for a cold demeanor, but for prowess on the steel guitar. A true prodigy, she could read music ...

I want a steel guitar and a fiddle.” That started me having more control of the songs that I recorded ... did to pave the way for women in country music. And I took that wisdom and added ...

Nefesh Mountain, the band helmed by husband-and-wife Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff is out with "Beacons." The lengthy disc - 18 songs, 91 minutes - goes for more of an Americana sound, although the ...

As a teenager, he started playing “Spanish guitar” – that’s what everybody called acoustic guitars before electric guitars were invented. One day, while he picked the strings with his right hand as ...