1.   Finally, he attaches a store-bought nylon or steel E string, and the violin is ready.

2.   He replaced the steel strings with gut and tuned the instrument lower, to what is now widely accepted as Baroque pitch.

3.   It has never had a Hart Crane to sing of its steel strings or a Joseph Stella to paint them.

4.   Pressing skin to steel strings and wood, the fingers make the city night wail with the music of the bluesman and his Manhattan blues band.

5.   The title track starts out idling like Southern rock but turns into a two-step between steel strings and an urban-cowboy guitar.

6.   With a slide guitar on his lap, he plucks the steel strings and becomes a riveting study in the lean and the soft.