The steel guitar is a fascinating instrument. Most instruments mimic the human voice in one way or another, but the steel guitar sounds all the more alien for how close it can come to forming words ...

Q.My wife would appreciate it if you could locate an audio tape for Sleep Walk by Santo and Johnny. – Anthony Ferri, Delray BeachA.Santo and Johnny was a guitar duo; Santo (Farina) played lead steel ...

THERE WAS NEVER ANY LOGICAL EXPLAnation for “Sleep Walk” why an instrumental steel guitar duet would have even been recorded by two Italian brothers from Brooklyn, never mind why it should have become ...

The Number Ones is a new column where I’ll review every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.