SUSAN ALCORN

Jazz Related Improv/Composition / Avant-Garde Jazz / 21st Century Modern • United States
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Susan Alcorn began playing the pedal steel guitar over 25 years ago, and in that time has evolved into a musician/composer of such rare inspiration that her music has redefined, for many, the very perception of the instrument itself.

As a child in the 1950's and 1960's she was surrounded by the big-band music that her parents listened to as well as the pop music that blared on her radio. She picked up the guitar when she was thirteen, and soon began playing slide guitar (inspired in particular by Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Son House) and dobro (her favorites were Mike Auldridge, Josh Graves, and Tut Taylor). A few years later, she began playing the pedal steel guitar and performed regularly with country-western bands in Texas.

Although Alcorn's initial work with pedal steel focused on the styles of the players usually associated with it - namely, country and western swing, she
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SUSAN ALCORN Uma album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Uma
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2000
SUSAN ALCORN Susan Alcorn, Eugene Chadbourne ‎: An Afternoon In Austin..or Country Music For Harmolodic Souls album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Susan Alcorn, Eugene Chadbourne ‎: An Afternoon In Austin..or Country Music For Harmolodic Souls
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2002
SUSAN ALCORN Sur album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sur
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2002
SUSAN ALCORN Curandera album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Curandera
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2003
SUSAN ALCORN And I Await The Resurrection Of The Pedal Steel Guitar album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
And I Await The Resurrection Of The Pedal Steel Guitar
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2006
SUSAN ALCORN Susan Alcorn, LaDonna Smith : Ambient Visage album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Susan Alcorn, LaDonna Smith : Ambient Visage
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2007
SUSAN ALCORN Susan Alcorn & George Burt ‎: A&B album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Susan Alcorn & George Burt ‎: A&B
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2010
SUSAN ALCORN Touch This Moment album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Touch This Moment
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2010
SUSAN ALCORN Soledad album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Soledad
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2015
SUSAN ALCORN Evening Tales album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Evening Tales
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2016
SUSAN ALCORN Susan Alcorn, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark : Invitation To A Dream album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Susan Alcorn, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark : Invitation To A Dream
Avant-Garde Jazz 2019
SUSAN ALCORN Susan Alcorn, Phillip Greenlief : Prism Mirror Lens album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Susan Alcorn, Phillip Greenlief : Prism Mirror Lens
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2019
SUSAN ALCORN Susan Alcorn, Tom Carter ‎: Ajax Peak album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Susan Alcorn, Tom Carter ‎: Ajax Peak
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
SUSAN ALCORN The Heart Sutra (Arranged by Janel Leppin) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Heart Sutra (Arranged by Janel Leppin)
Avant-Garde Jazz 2020
SUSAN ALCORN Susan Alcorn Quintet : Pedernal album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Susan Alcorn Quintet : Pedernal
21st Century Modern 2020
SUSAN ALCORN Susan Alcorn / Leila Bordreuil / Ingrid Laubrock : Bird Meets Wire album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Susan Alcorn / Leila Bordreuil / Ingrid Laubrock : Bird Meets Wire
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2021
SUSAN ALCORN From Union Pool album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
From Union Pool
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2023
SUSAN ALCORN Susan Alcorn | José Lencastre | Hernâni Faustino : Manifesto album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Susan Alcorn | José Lencastre | Hernâni Faustino : Manifesto
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2023
SUSAN ALCORN Septeto del Sur : Canto album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Septeto del Sur : Canto
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2023

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SUSAN ALCORN In​-​Yu album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
In​-​Yu
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2024

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SUSAN ALCORN Concentration album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Concentration
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2004
SUSAN ALCORN 2.14.15 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
2.14.15
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2016
SUSAN ALCORN Susan Alcorn/Chris Corsano/ Bill Nace : Live at Rotunda album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Susan Alcorn/Chris Corsano/ Bill Nace : Live at Rotunda
Avant-Garde Jazz 2019

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