Gig Review: Susan Alcorn (November 19, Wgtn)

Susan Alcorn

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Wednesday, November 19

Baltimore-based Susan Alcorn has lifted the pedal steel guitar up and away from country music. You can still hear that weepy quality, that yearning in her sound. But, in fact, you hear the history of so many guitar noises in her sound – from the mythical B.B. King playing the wire against a fence-post through the so…