| Pat Alger Bio |
Pat Alger was born in Long Island City, New York, but was raised in his mother's birthplace, the small southern town of LaGrange, GA. When in college in the sixties, he began performing at Atlanta folk clubs and it was in that environment that Pat began his songwriting career.
Moving to Woodstock, New York in the seventies, he made three albums with the Woodstock Mountains Revue for Rounder Records and a duet album with guitarist Artie Traum. In 1980 Pat had his first hit ("First Time Love") with folk-pop artist Livingston Taylor and decided to join his friend Jim Rooney and try his luck in Nashville.
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Slowly, established artists like Mickey Gilley, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee and The Everly Brothers cut his material, then new artists like Kathy Mattea, Nanci Griffith, Hal Ketchum and Trisha Yearwood. His collaboration with Garth yielded four #1 records: "The Thunder Rolls," "Unanswered Prayers," "What She's Doing Now," and "That Summer," as well as the #1 Trisha Yearwood hit "LIke We Never Had a Broken Heart." In 1991 he was songwriter of the year for the Nashville Songwriters Association and with Garth Brooks was Jukebox songwriter of the year. In 1992 Pat was ASCAP's songwriter of the year. He has two solo albums available from Sugar Hill Records and one on the Liberty Label.
PAT ALGER WAS ONE OF THOSE CATS. HE GOT TALKED INTO WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE GET TALKED INTO IN (NASHVILLE), GETTING ON BOARDS AND COMMITTEES FOR PROTECTING THE SONGWRITERS. GOOD FOR HIM FOR DOING THAT, BUT IT TOOK HIM AWAY FROM SONGWRITING. HE DID MORE FOR THOSE SONGWRITERS ON THOSE BOARDS THAN HE COULD HAVE DONE FOR THEM WRITING SONGS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, PAT ALGER IS MEANT TO TALK TO PEOPLE THROUGH MUSIC.
- Garth Brooks |
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