Religion & Ethics Newsweekly caught up last month at the 9:30 Club in Washington with Robert Randolph and the Family Band and their “House of God sound.” Lap steel and pedal steel guitars were ...

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 ...