The high, plaintive wail of the pedal steel guitar and the warmly rough voice that follows close behind it define Robert Randolph's sound.

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Dondero's hopeful lyrics are echoed in the instrumentation of this song as a blithe keyboard brightens a long shadow of a melancholy steel guitar.

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The lovely melody of "You Can't Hurt Me Now, " with its plaintive vocal, keening pedal-steel guitar and loping tempo, is typical of the songcraft offered on Beware.

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We'll see if Madonna is ultimately driven to adopt the same strategy though I shudder to think how "Like a Virgin" will sound with fiddle and steel guitar.

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Slivers of pedal steel guitar cut across a flowing backdrop of acoustic guitars and piano, and there are moments when you can almost see the tumbleweed rolling past.

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Chuck Campbell adds to the highway sound with pedal-steel guitar.

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Williams recorded both secular and gospel music, but in 1970 he committed to working solely with artists from the Church of the Living God in Toledo, Ohio, where he himself learned how to play pedal steel guitar.

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Contributing vocals, banjo, guitar, bass, pedal steel and dobro, Scott became quite the catch within the country scene.

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And were actually on tour with a great pedal steel player right now, Eric Heywood, who plays - hes an amazing guitar player, and then he jumps right over to the pedal steel.

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Receli, steel guitarist Donnie Herron, and guitarists Charlie Sexton and Stu Kimball -- as well as David Hidalgo on guitar, violin and accordion.

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