A rare female virtuoso on an instrument long dominated by men, Ms. Alcorn erased boundaries for pedal steel guitar — a console ... like the guitarist and banjo player Eugene Chadbourne, the ...

Having released over a dozen albums and collaborated with a multitude of artists throughout her career, Alcorn is widely ...

She also credits Jennifer Batten as a female guitarist who "checked the boxes for me" at a time when few women were playing guitar ...