Pedal steel guitar is a powerful motivator. Dan Lebowitz, guitarist for Bay Area jam band ALO, began playing pedal steel a few years ago, to further broaden his musically adventurous band's sound. "It is one of those instruments you play and it really gets under your skin," Lebowitz said of the mournful-sounding instrument. "I can play it all night long." Lebowitz's love for pedal steel led to Brokedown in Bakersfield, a country side project with Tim Bluhm, lead singer of 1960s-tinged San Francisco rock group the Mother Hips, and Bluhm's wife, Nicki Bluhm, an Americana singer who usually...
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