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 ...