On his 2011 sophomore self-titled album, which contrasted with the stripped-down, lower-budget approach of ... and Vernon has ...

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 ...

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.