You’ve most certainly heard a pedal steel guitar before, most likely in any ‘old’ country song, or more specifically, any country song that doesn’t include the word ‘truck’ in its lyrics.

Having released over a dozen albums and collaborated with a multitude of artists throughout her career, Alcorn is widely ...

Susan Alcorn, the pioneering pedal steel player who steered the instrument in experimental, improvisational directions, has ...

Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought the instrument beyond its traditional role in country music, died ...

By Alex Williams Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who pushed the pedal steel guitar, an instrument more often associated with the country music roadhouse, into the avant-garde ...