Editing Steel guitar (section)

===Blues music===
{{Main|Slide guitar}}
[[File:Slide guitar 1.jpg|thumb|left|alt=A musician playing a slide guitar with a slide on their little finger|Slide guitar played with slide on musician's little finger]]
Solo African-American blues artists popularized the bottleneck-style ([[slide guitar]]) near the beginning of the twentieth century.<ref name="volklap"/> One of the first [[Southern United States|southern]] blues musicians to adapt the Hawaiian sound to the blues was [[Tampa Red]], whose playing, says historian Gérard Herzhaft, "created a style that has unquestionably influenced all modern blues".<ref name="blues-tampa">{{cite book |last1=Herzhaft |first1=Gérard |title=Encyclopedia of the Blues |date=1996 |publisher=[[University of Arkansas Press]] |location=Fayetteville, AR |isbn=978-1-55728-252-1|pages=334–335 |edition=5. Dr. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2CGNaUpGcbcC}}</ref>  The [[Mississippi Delta]] was the home of [[Robert Johnson]], [[Son House]], [[Charlie Patton]] and other blues pioneers, who used a prominent tubular slide on a finger.<ref name="sokolomel">{{cite book |last1=Sokolow |first1=Fred |title=Slide Guitar for the Rock Guitarist |date=2011 |publisher=[[Mel Bay]] |location=Pacific, Missouri |isbn=978-1-61065-563-7 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bnMyBFsw45sC&q=title+page |access-date=June 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name="erlewineblues">{{cite book |last1=Erlewine |first1=Michael |author-link=Michael Erlewine|title=All Music Guide to the Blues (Encyclopedia Articles) |date=1996 |publisher=[[Miller Freeman, Inc.]] |location=San Francisco |isbn=0-87930-424-3 |page=372 |url=https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetob00erle |access-date=June 21, 2020}}</ref> The first known recording of the bottleneck style was in 1923 by [[Sylvester Weaver (musician)|Sylvester Weaver]], who recorded two instrumentals, "Guitar Blues" and "Guitar Rag".<ref name="russell">{{cite book |last1=Russell |first1=Tony |title=The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray |date=1997 |publisher=[[Carlton Books]] |location=Dubai |isbn=1-85868-255-X |page=12}}</ref><ref name="fetherhoffguitar">{{cite book |last1=Fetherhoff |first1=Bob |title=The Guitar Story: From Ancient to Modern Times |date=2014 |publisher=BookBaby |isbn=978-1-4835-1683-7 |page=ebook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gxtXDQAAQBAJ&q=sylvester+weaver |access-date=June 21, 2020}}</ref> [[Western swing]] pioneers [[Bob Wills]] and [[Leon McAuliffe]] adapted his song, "Guitar Rag",  in 1935 for the influential instrumental "[[Steel Guitar Rag]]".<ref name="mannbottlen">{{cite book |last1=Mann |first1=Woody |title=Bottleneck Blues Guitar |date=1979 |publisher=[[Oak Publications]] |location=London |isbn=978-1783235261 |page=ebook}}</ref>  Blues musicians played a conventional [[Classical guitar|Spanish guitar]] as a hybrid between the two types of guitars, using one finger inserted into a tubular slide or a bottleneck with one finger while using frets with the remaining fingers (usually for rhythm accompaniment).<ref name="premier-ross"/> This technique allows the player to finger the frets on some strings and use the slide on others. Slide players may use open tunings or traditional tunings as a matter of personal preference.<ref name="sokolomel"/> [[Lap slide guitar]] is not a specific instrument but a style of playing a lap steel guitar usually referring to blues or rock music.<ref name="blues-tampa"/><ref name="dsjborrow">{{cite book| last = Tipaldi| first = Art| title = Children of the Blues: 49 Musicians Shaping a New Blues Tradition| year = 2002| publisher = [[Hal Leonard]]| isbn = 9781617749933| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oFleFn79Ao0C&q=Tipaldi+%2B+lap+slide+guitar&pg=PA279
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