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 ...

A half hour’s drive from Roseburg, Oregon, the air smells of fresh-cut pine, a fragrance released as a team of loggers fells and clears several thousand charred trees on the property of Todd ...

With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent. By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...