Sunday evening (October 17), hit songwriters Pat Alger and Steve Cropper, the late pop/country star Paul Davis, and America's first professional songwriter, Stephen Foster, were inducted into the ...

When Pat Alger was a high school junior, his English teacher recited Robert Frost poems from memory, and he was mesmerized. Something in him connected to Frost’s words. Later, when the Nashville ...

Pat Alger has signed with Nashville-based Matt Lindsey Music for publishing representation. Alger, who was ASCAP's country songwriter of the year in 1992, has written such hits as Garth Brooks' "The… ...

Songwriters are storytellers. And behind every song, there is a story. Often a very good one. Kent Blazy, Pat Alger and Emily Falvey demonstrated that fact during a performance at Belmont University’s ...

The alpaca/llama show has been a part of the Larimer County Fair for 10 years. “We first got into this and there was no alpaca/llama project in Larimer County,” Pat Alger, the alpaca/llama ...

Country music legends Garth Brooks and Pat Alger tie at No. 1 on Billboard's Hard Rock Songwriters chart (dated Feb. 6), thanks to State of Mine's amped-up cover, featuring No Resolve, of Brooks'… By ...

Watermelon Wednesdays will kick off its season this week with a special Thursday performance featuring songwriter Pat Alger. The show takes place at the West Whately Chapel at 7:30 p.m. Alger had his ...

The Bluebird Café launched its CMA Fest residency at Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood’s Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk on Tuesday evening with many of Brooks’ hits performed by the writers who ...

In the late 1980s, Pat Alger emerged as one of Nashville’s most perceptive songwriters by bringing a literary touch and insightful social commentary to the catchy song craft valued by Music Row. While ...