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.

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Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought the instrument beyond its traditional role in country music, died on Friday, January 31. Baltimore’s High Zero Foundation shared the ...

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 traditional folk ...

Some synth bloops and a waterfall of pedal steel—those are the textures adorning the opening beckons of Saya Gray’s sort-of-self-titled second album, SAYA. The Japanese-Canadian musician makes ...