Pat Alger

Pat Alger, who is among the most successful country songwriters of the late '80s and early '90s, comes from a folk background, and that colors the unusually thoughtful, articulated songs he writes. He first turned up on record himself playing guitar and singing with the loosely constructed Woodstock Mountain Revue on the album More Music from Mud Acres in 1977. He was a co-author of the song "Ocracoke Time," which appeared on the Revue's third album, Pretty Lucky, in 1978, as well as "Old Time Music" on its fourth album, Back to Mud Acres, in 1981, and the sole author of "Sout...