One hundred six years ago today, the influential steel guitar master who played with some classic country's biggest stars was born.

Helms got his first steel guitar, a Sears Silvertone, at age 15. Because the family farm had no electricity, he played the instrument over a washtub to make it resonate, according to the New York ...

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 ...

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 attack. He was 81.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Steel guitarist Don Helms, the last remaining member of Hank Williams' original Drifting Cowboys Band, has died from a heart attack, fellow performer Marty Stuart said ...

Hank Williams set many a music-biz template. He was a “rollin’ stone” before Mick Jagger, and a guitar rogue before Keith Richards. A singer/songwriter before Bob Dylan. A successful talent who couldn ...