Pat Alger
Pat Alger
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About Pat Alger
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 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. In 1991, he was voted Songwriter of the Year by the Nashville Songwriter's Association International, and the same year he was voted Jukebox Songwriter of the Year by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, ASCAP. In 1992, he received the Country Songwriter of the Year award from ASCAP. Country Music Association gave him two Triple Play awards given to those who have three number one hits in a year. In 2010, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He served as Chair of the Nashville Songwriters Foundation and is a two-time past President of Nashville Songwriters Association International. Alger was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in September 2013.
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