Interview with lap steel master Lloyd Maines
Filed Under Lap Steel News |
(Guitar International) Music runs in the rich musical heritage and family of Maines, whose father and uncles formed the Original Maines Brothers Band. Lloyd grew up listening to his father’s band jamming in his grandmother’s kitchen, influencing him to form the 2nd generation Maines Brothers Band with his brothers. Over the years, Lloyd taught himself to play acoustic and electric guitar, Dobro, papoose, mandolin, lap steel, banjo, and more.
Lloyd became fascinated and enthralled with the beautiful expressiveness of the pedal steel guitar when the pedal steel guitar player of his father’s band, Frank Carter, left a homemade pedal steel guitar at his house one day. From there, Maines developed a vast creative affection for the stunning emotional tones which emanate from the pedal steel, teaching himself to play, craft, and develop many innovative musical textures and sonic colors. And so Maines continues to this day as one of the pedal steel’s most honored and distinguished craftsman and virtuosos.
Read the full interview at Guitar International