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, a fixture on the Hawaiian music scene since the 1970s, died April 11 of complications from Parkinson’s disease in Honolulu. He was 85. The country music steel guitarist who came to Hawaii ...

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 ...

Undated photo of Joseph Kekuku. Photo courtesy Jerry Byrd / Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association Scholars have traced the origin of the Hawaiian steel guitar to Joseph Kekuku, a young schoolboy from Laie ...