Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...

In 1904, Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the Hawaiian steel guitar, left Hawaii to perform on the American West Coast. Newspaper critics called him the “world’s greatest guitar soloist.” Redpath Chautauqua ...

Sorry, ukulele. Hawaii won't spurn the steel guitar to sound its love for you. Bills in the state Legislature that would've declared the friendly little guitar the ...

Western swing legend Tom "Wolf" Morrell died Tuesday of emphysema at his home in Little Elm, Texas. He was 68. The steel guitarist got his start in the 1950s and played with artists including Willie ...

Who could have imagined that a few serendipitous events on a remote Pacific island in the 19th century would fundamentally change American music. In 1832 Hawaii's king brought Mexican cowboys to the ...

Somewhere, deep in the art of Texas, there is a special place for the steel guitar. It can cut into a Texas swing number with all the force of a horn section, or drift over a country ballad like a ...

Herby Wallace, a steel guitar hall of famer from Chattanooga, died Thursday at Sevierville at the age of 64. He was born and raised in Chattanooga and attended Baylor School before graduating from ...

Any music-making operates within a context, and it is important to identify the specific context, leading to the visibly active presence of the Western classical guitar in India today. The “modern ...

With Avicii's folk/country/house anthem Wake Me Up riding high in the upper echelons of the charts, there's never been a better/worse (delete according to musical taste) time to add some twangy guitar ...

KAILUA, Hawaii — Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning ...