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Bobby Lee (Robert Paul Lee born 1949, died 2023), was a pedal steel guitar player and active promoter of the instrument, creating several Internet websites and most recognized as the founder of the Steel Guitar Forum. Inspired by the steel guitar styles of Jerry Garcia (with The Grateful Dead) and Don Helms (with Hank Williams), Bobby Lee took ...
A steel guitar (Hawaiian: kīkākila [1]) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar".
Ralph Eugene Mooney (September 16, 1928 – March 20, 2011) [1] was an American steel guitar player and songwriter, he was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1983. [2] He was the original steel guitarist in Merle Haggard 's band, The Strangers and the most prominent steel guitarist in Waylon Jennings ' band, The Waylors .
The addition of pedals made steel guitar a country music staple, while blues and jazz musicians adopted the slide guitar, which utilized a similar gliding technique while holding the guitar ...
NPR music writer Jesse Jarnow called Bradshaw "perhaps the world's leading authority on the instrument". [3] Bradshaw played and repaired steel guitars and sold parts and accessories for the instruments for nearly a half-century. [3] He was editor and publisher of Steel Guitarist magazine and was a columnist and writer for Guitar Player ...
Gerald Lester Byrd (March 9, 1920 [1] – April 11, 2005) [2] was an American musician who played the lap steel guitar in country and Hawaiian music, as well as a singer-songwriter and the head of a music publishing firm. He appeared on numerous radio programs.
Joseph Kekuku‘upenakana‘iapuniokamehameha Apuakehau, Jr. (1874/75 – January 16, 1932), better known as Joseph Kekuku, was a Hawaiian-American musician and the inventor of the steel guitar. He discovered the sound of the steel guitar after tinkering with an old Spanish guitar. Born in the Hawaiian Kingdom, Kekuku later immigrated to the ...
Robert Lee Dunn (February 5, 1908 – May 27, 1971) was a pioneer Western swing steel guitarist. [2] Influenced by influential Hawaiian lap steel guitar player Sol Hoʻopiʻi, Dunn played in his own original bluesy style and was one of the first to record an electric guitar, preceding other country & western guitarists following him shortly.