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Pat Alger
12+ albums
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Pat Alger (born Patrick J. Alger in LaGrange, Georgia, on 23 September 1947) is a country music songwriter, singer and guitarist and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (2010) and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame (2013). As a songwriter, 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. It was when Alger moved to Woodstock, New York, in 1973 that he began his career as a musician and songwriter working together with Happy & 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". The next year, in 1981, he moved to Nashville. 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" and "Lone Star State of Mind." 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 four number one hits for 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
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True Love & Other Short Stories
Seeds
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Shelter: The Best of Contemporary Singer-Songwriters
True Love
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Shelter: Best of Contemporary Singer-Songwriters (2 of 2)
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In The Beginning: A Songwriter's Tribute To...
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20 Singer Songwriter Hits
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In The Beginning: A Songwriter's Tribute To Garth Brooks
Folk Masters: Guitarists
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Singer Songwriter - Unplugged
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Shelter:The Best Of Contemporary Singer-Songwriters [Disc 2]
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Putumayo Presents: Shelter - The Best of Contemporary Singer-Songwriters, CD2