“There’s just something about Baltimore that really grew on me,” Susan Alcorn told me in 2023.

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.

Susan Alcorn, the pioneering pedal steel player who steered the instrument in experimental, improvisational directions, has ...

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

Justin Vernon has been writing under the enigmatic moniker Bon Iver since 2006, releasing heartfelt, experimental, indie folk ...