With releases on imprints such as Loveletter, Boxholder and Olde English Spelling Bee, Alcorn has exposed the pedal steel to diverse new audiences, while her work continues to attract favourable comparisons to the singular output of delta blues reductionist Loren Connors.Īlthough predominantly a solo performer, Alcorn has worked with other artists including Eugene Chadbourne, Jandek and Mike Cooper, as well as Pauline Oliveros whose “deep listening” philosophies profoundly impacted upon Alcorn in the early 90s as her music took on a more holistic approach. Despite starting out playing in traditional country swing bands in her home of Texas, Alcorn’s explorations of extended technique and her love of free jazz and minimalist composition have seen her transport the pedal steel to unexplored pastures of improvisational innovation, while retaining a devastatingly and genuinely affecting sparseness far removed from the placebo poignancy of Nashville’s crumbling edifice. Susan Alcorn’s music dispels all such accepted wisdoms. Brush aside any preconceived notions that you may have about the pedal steel guitar and its familiar association as the sonic stalwart of syrupy country corn.
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