Jerry Fessenden builds a pedal steel guitar in his Montpelier workshop Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur “This is a horrible little shop,” Jerry Fessenden says as he opens the door to a shack abutting the ...

Jackson native Joe Wright laughs as he tells a story that shows how unfamiliar some music fans are with the type of guitar that he has played since he was a teenager. "Man, I love the way you play ...

The pedal steel guitar is a thing of strange beauty. Call it a musical contraption: a guitar neck flattened on a board of wood and resting on spindly metal legs, with sometimes a second neck, or even ...

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