Pat Alger
| Pat Alger | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 23, 1947 |
| Origin | LaGrange, Georgia, United States |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Associated acts |
Garth Brooks, Happy & Artie Traum, Woodstock Mountains Revue, Everly Brothers |
Pat Alger (born September 23, 1947 in LaGrange, Georgia) is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist.
Alger attended Georgia Tech studying architecture but decided to concentrate on writing songs. He started as a solo folk performer at folk clubs. He began his career as a musician and songwriter working together with Happy and Artie Traum as a member of the Woodstock Mountains Revue. The group included the Traum brothers, Arlen Roth, John Herald and Maria Muldaur among others. Some of the songs he wrote during this period were "Old Time Music" and "Southern Crescent Line." In 1980, he had his first success as a songwriter when Livingston Taylor had a hit with "First Time Love". Between 1984 and 1988, he toured with the Everly Brothers in the United States and in Europe. He later teamed up with Nanci Griffith and co-wrote Griffith's hit songs "Once In A Very Blue Moon" ( with Eugene Levine) and "Lone Star State of Mind."(with Eugene Levine and Fred Koller) Some of his songs have also been recorded by Kathy Mattea such as "Goin' Gone", "She Came From Fort Worth" and "A Few Good Things Remain." He wrote some of the number one hits of Garth Brooks like "Unanswered Prayers", "What She's Doing Now", "The Thunder Rolls" and "That Summer." He also wrote hits for Hal Ketchum, "Small Town Saturday Night," for Trisha Yearwood, "Like We Never Had A Broken Heart," for Don Williams, "True Love", and for Mark Collie, "Calloused Hands." Through the years, his songs have been recorded and performed by such diverse artists as Peter, Paul and Mary, Dolly Parton, Lyle Lovett, Brenda Lee and Crystal Gayle. He has recorded three critically acclaimed solo albums in the 1990s featuring backup by Griffith, Lovett, Mattea and Yearwood.
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