When Alabama Music Hall of Famer Don Davis was a child in the late 1930s, a country music band played at his school in Satsuma. One of its members leaned over a flat keyboard that he plucked -- a ...

With her 2013 debut album Same Trailer Different Park, Texan singer/songwriter Kacey Musgraves catapulted herself to stardom with a set of tunes nearly impossible to find in today’s country music. She ...

Clinton steel guitarist Jacob Dillion made his Grand Ole Opry debut during the show’s 100th anniversary celebration, ...

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.

The late Pete Drake was a well-known Nashville session player whose pedal steel guitar licks were heard on many of country music’s biggest during the 60s, 70s, and early 80s. Songs like George Jones’ ...

The thing that makes you hate contemporary country music isn’t the instruments — hell, what’s to hate about a steel guitar or fiddle — it’s those asinine country lyrics that make you want to stick the ...

Buddy Emmons, who died yesterday in Nashville at age 78, achieved the kind of exalted position among musicians and listeners that few instrumentalists in the history of country music have equaled. In ...