When he was a young musician, Chas Smith had zero interest in country music, and had never really paid attention to the painstakingly slow, textured flow of sounds that come from the pedal steel guitar. He recently told Studio 360’s David Krasnow how an accident of faith and a bad habit lead to his mastering this notoriously difficult instrument.
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