a solo effort that features Harper and his Monteleone lap steel guitar across 15 original instrumental compositions. As a preview for the album, Harper released a performance of the song “Inland ...

Queen Lili‘uokalani herself was a prolific composer of Hawaiian songs ... to hold the guitar flat in their lap and finger pick like Joseph Kekuku and other native Hawaiian steel guitarists ...

Freddie Roulette, a musician who helped bring the lap steel guitar — an instrument long ... demonstrated versatility with jazz standards and pop songs. Frederick Martin Roulette was born in ...

But while the lap steel guitar can still be found in country and ... During Quincy’s lesson, his third, the teenager works through the song “Beyond the Reef” as he sits amid a cluster ...

For years, he’d played a solo guitar rendition of “Pure Imagination” from “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” often as a soundcheck warm-up. When he added steel, he spotted the song ...