SUSAN ALCORN
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Avant-Garde Jazz, 21st Century Modern • United States

Baltimore, Maryland, pedal steel guitarist. Married to David Lobato. (born 1953 in Cleveland, Ohio; died January 31, 2025) from discogs Susan Alcorn was born in Cleveland/Ohio in 1953. She grew up in a musical family and said that her earliest musical experience was a situation in which she sat under the piano as a small child while her mother played - and she played the pedal, her first musical instrument, as she put it. As a child, she was surrounded by the music her parents listened to - Igor Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, but also pop music from the radio. She herself began playing the guitar at the age of twelve, inspired by her interest in folk, blues and the pop music of the sixties. She loved Muddy Waters which was why she wanted to play the slide guitar. One evening, when she was about 16 years old, read more...