While you may have never heard his name, Jerry Byrd played a key role in the history of country music. The steel guitarist master played with legendary musicians like Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, Patsy ...

For almost eight years, I’ve wanted to write about Jerry Byrd’s Steel Guitar Favorites. “What took so long,” you ask? Well, it doesn’t make the job easy if there are no informative liner notes and ...

Jerry Byrd, who helped pioneer the telltale sound of steel guitar in Hawaiian and country music, died Monday in Honolulu. He was 85. The Nashville, Tenn., native moved to Hawaii in the 1970s and was ...

Sam Rivers, who died in 2011, was one of the luminaries of the avant-garde, a Blue Note artist who played not only with Miles Davis and Cecil Taylor, but also Dizzy Gillespie and Billie Holiday. He ...