You’ve most certainly heard a pedal steel guitar before, most likely in any ‘old’ country song, or more specifically, any country song that doesn’t include the word ‘truck’ in its lyrics.

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 ...

In practice, that fusion gave her music the sound and smoothness ... Alcorn had immersed herself in the pedal steel guitar ...

Prior to playing Nashville's Cannery Hall, Maui-born Maoli highlighted why his Pacific Islands sound intersects with Nashville's country music scene.