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Pedal Steel Power From Country Pickers
by: Lenny Kaye
Originally published in The History of Rock, 1983
Probably no other instrument in the world is as closely associated with country music as the pedal steel guitar. Yet its roots are found not in some rural hamlet in the Southern reaches of America, but in an exotic, hybrid Polynesian culture located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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by: Lenny Kaye
published: March 19, 2008
in column: Classic Vantage
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