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

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

Tammy – and saw what they did to pave the way for women in country music. And I took that wisdom and added it to what I wanted to do, which was go back to the steel guitar and fiddle.

She started playing guitar at age ... is there are these two women — Susan Alcorn and Heather Leigh. More than any other instrument I know, the culture around [pedal steel] is so male dominated.” ...