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 ...

The guitar icon shared insights into his guitar style and the origins of his pedal-steel guitar with Guitar Player in 2003 ...

An innovative instrumentalist has died, leading many in the music industry to pay their respects. In a post on X, the ...

She started playing guitar at age 12 and began experimenting ... In that NPR feature, Chuck Johnson, one of the pedal steel players who was profoundly influenced by Alcorn, said, “I don ...

Susan Alcorn was 71 years old. After coming to the pedal steel guitar through country bands, Alcorn pursued a solo career in which she refined her approach to the instrument on a virtuosic level.

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.

I’ve been campaigning for more slide guitar in metal for years — what would some nasty pedal steel licks sound like amidst ... (few things are worse than a bad or even mediocre steel guitar player; ...

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