With a daring avant-garde approach, she pushed the frontiers of an instrument best known for speaking with a down-home accent ...

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 ...

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

Susan Alcorn, the trailblazing pedal steel guitarist who redefined the instrument through her experimental and ...

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An innovative instrumentalist has died, leading many in the music industry to pay their respects. In a post on X, the experimental music group High Zero Foundation announced that Susan Alcorn, a ...

Alcorn was one of the world’s foremost pedal steel guitar players who took the instrument to new heights, a celebrated solo ...

Spencer Grady talks to pioneering composer and free improviser Susan Alcorn about Muddy Waters, Messiaen and the art of “deep listening”. Photo by Andy Newcombe If you’ve read something you love on ...

Susan Alcorn, photo by Stewart Mostofsky and courtesy of High Zero Foundation Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought the instrument beyond its traditional role in country music, ...