Alvino Rey, a bandleader of the swing era who made the steel guitar sing and helped many talented young musicians hone their signature sounds, died Feb. 23 at his home in Salt Lake City. He was 95. Mr ...

Alvino Rey may not be a household name today, but Rey's genre-busting fretwork in electric music's nascent years helped set the stage for modern rock. Courtesy of Lynn A Wheelwright-Alvino Rey Archive ...

Bandleader Alvino Rey, a guitar virtuoso whose big-band-era orchestra is best known for its No. 1 hit “Deep in the Heart of Texas” and a string of novelty tunes, has died. He was 95. Rey, who also was ...

Alvino Rey, 95, a guitar virtuoso whose big-band era orchestra is best known for its No. 1 hit "Deep in the Heart of Texas" and a string of novelty tunes, died Feb. 24 at a rehabilitation center in ...

Alvino Rey, the swing band leader who popularized the pedal steel guitar, died Tuesday (Feb. 24) of unknown causes in Salt Lake City. He was 95. By Billboard Staff Alvino Rey, the swing band leader ...

Bear with us: Grammy-winning outfit Arcade Fire is led by very tall person Win Butler, raised a conservative Mormon in a family that famously included 1920s to 1950s bandleader Alvino Rey. Alvino Rey ...

To his credit, Rey loved that stuff." As the '40s wore on, Alvino Rey's steel guitar made less and less sense as a showcase jazz band instrument. By 1948, the alto saxophone rivaled the trumpet for ...

The innovative sounds of the father of the pedal steel guitar, Alvino Rey, who has died aged 95, influenced guitarists as disparate as Duane Eddy and Jimi Hendrix, and bands like the Ventures and the ...

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It's tough to get a fix on Alvino Rey. Many people who are remotely familiar with the big bands of the 1940s think of the steel-guitar playing Rey as a novelty act. He wasn't. Given the enormous size ...