The pedal steel guitar is, for many, inextricable from its roots in country music — but its well runs much deeper than providing some smooth twang.

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 ...

Pedal steel guitar Low-tech is still tech. Matt Rosoff July 20, 2007 1:26 p.m. PT ...

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 9, 2025, Section A, Page 29 of the New York edition with the headline: Susan Alcorn, 71, Voyager With a Radical Approach To the Pedal Steel Guitar.

Susan Alcorn first learned her way around the pedal steel guitar by playing the usual stuff — country songs where the pedal steel’s glissando was meant to evoke the viscosity of teardrops. Now ...

My old pedal steel guitar player, Bo Borland, is picking in some pretty good company these days. I met Bo in 1978. I’d started a band that included steel guitar guru Winnie Winston in 1977, but ...

The pedal steel guitar is played seated with a slide bar and finger picks and is a staple in traditional country music arrangements. Headliners at the Norwalk celebration this year include Lonnie ...

WHO: Pedal steel guitar player Noah Faulkner. WHAT: This teenager inserts a country twang into eighties (and beyond) covers for his dog, Kara, and nearly 40,000 Instagram followers. WHY IT’S SO ...

Pedal steel guitar player Buck Reid, who's been a member of Lyle Lovett's Large Band for two decades, is one of the headliners at the Steel Guitar Celebration in Norwalk on Nov. 10.

B.J. Cole, the British pedal-steel guitar player, has been knocking around the music business for more than 40 years, called in to add a distinctive flair to someone else's record ...

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 ...