Don Helms, whose piercing, forceful steel guitar helped define the sound of nearly all of Hank Williams' hits, and who performed and recorded with a long list of other country greats, died Aug. 11 in ...

In August of 2008, Don Helms died. As one of country music’s greatest pre-pedal steel guitar players, Helms is essential to ten of Hank Williams’ 11 No. 1 hits, as well as major hits by Lefty Frizzell ...

An architect of the honky-tonk flavor that would come to define country music in the late 20th century, Hank Williams didn’t do it alone. Backed by his Drifting Cowboys band, Williams relied on the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Don Helms, a renowned steel guitarist who played in Hank Williams’ Drifting Cowboys band and on country classics by Patsy Cline and Lefty Frizzell, has died of an apparent heart ...

How many tears have been spilled during the playing of "Your Cheatin' Heart?" Maybe the better question is: How many teaspoons are in the ocean? Hank Williams' quivery vocal—a moon calf that can ...

The phone was busy with well-wishers calling on his 81st birthday, but Don Helms took time to retrieve his steel guitar from the back bedroom and play some of country music’s most famous songs. The ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The phone was busy with well-wishers calling on his 81st birthday, but Don Helms took time to retrieve his steel guitar from the back bedroom and play some of country music's most ...

Don Helms, was the last surviving member of Hank Williams' band, the Drifting Cowboys, and played at the country music titan's side for the better part of a decade, from 1943 until Williams' death at ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Don Helms, a renowned steel guitarist who played in Hank Williams’ Drifting Cowboys band and on country classics by Patsy Cline and Lefty Frizzell, has died of an apparent ...