Susan Alcorn (April 4, 1953 – January 31, 2025) was an American composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, [1] Alcorn started playing guitar at the age of twelve and …

Feb 5, 2025 · Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought the instrument beyond its traditional role in country music, died on Friday, January 31.

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Feb 7, 2025 · Pedal steel guitar virtuoso, composer, and improviser Susan Alcorn, who played an important role in broadening the horizons of the instrument beyond country, Hawaiian music, and …

Jan 31, 2025 · Susan Alcorn, the pioneering pedal steel player who steered the instrument in experimental, improvisational directions, has died.

Feb 5, 2025 · Susan Alcorn, who devised a visionary lexicon for pedal steel guitar in creative and improvised music, died on Jan. 31 in Baltimore. She was 71.

Feb 18, 2025 · Susan Alcorn Lobato was a Country, Jazz, and Classical musician, composer, and the pedal steel guitar was her instrument. She expanded her steel guitar beyond Country music and …

Feb 1, 2025 · Susan Alcorn was born in Cleveland/Ohio in 1953. She grew up in a musical family and said that her earliest musical experience was a situation in which she sat under the piano as a small …

Feb 5, 2025 · Musician Susan Alcorn has died. A pioneer in pedal steel guitar, Alcorn began her career in country music and slide guitar before shifting to more experimental sounds.

Feb 6, 2025 · Credit...Nicole Fara Silver for The New York Times. Susan Alcorn, an experimental composer and musician who pushed the pedal steel guitar, an instrument more often associated with …