Susan Alcorn

Person · Open Library

Works

7

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1953-04-04

Active to

2025-01-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

5,185

Total plays

37,243

Susan Alcorn (born 1953; died January 2025) was an American composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist active in contemporary music and free improvisation. Alcorn started out playing guitar at the age of twelve quickly immersing herself in folk music, blues, and the pop music of the 1960’s. A chance encounter with blues musician Muddy Waters steered her towards playing slide guitar. By the time she was twenty-one, she had immersed herself in the pedal steel guitar, playing in country and

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. “Mini-mental state”

   · 1975 · cited 68,300x

2. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

   · 2016 · cited 32,930x

3. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

   · 1989 · cited 29,226x

4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,908x

5. phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

   · 2013 · cited 20,049x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Susan

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Cleveland

Place of death

Baltimore

Occupation

guitarist

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

20th-century classical music

Instrument

pedal steel guitar

Official website

www.susanalcorn.net

Image

Susan Alcorn steel guitar.jpg

Residence

Houston

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