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Fingerstyle acoustic guitarist Al Petteway has been playing in bands since the early ’70s By the time he launched his own solo recording career in the ’90s, Petteway had created an original playing style combining Celtic tunings and phrases with American themes

Lyricist Al Stillman was born in New York City in 1906 Ella Fitzgerald was among the first to popularize his songs, recording “I’m Not Complaining,” “I’m Up a Tree,” and “Don’cha Go ‘Way Mad”; Billie Holiday also sang many a Stillman lyric, including “I Wish I Had You,” “With Thee I Swing,” and “It’s Not for Me to Say

Al Stricklin Biography, Photos, Pictures

Al Stricklin was a jazz pianist whose lively playing helped give Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys the band’s unique western swing flavor Ironically, when Stricklin first heard Wills play the fiddle during an audition at a radio station where Stricklin was in charge of hiring, he thought Wills’ routine was more of a comedy act than any serious musical offering

Before Alabama, bands were usually relegated to a supporting role in country music In the first part of the century, bands were popular with audiences across the country, but as recordings became available, nearly every popular recording artist was a vocalist, not a group

A.C. Overton Biography, Photos, Pictures

This North Carolina banjo player picks in a style that was unfortunately all but wiped out by the incredible popularity of bluegrass and its banjo calisthenics in the ’40s and ’50s

Allan Bibey has been one of the most exciting, versatile and influential mandolinists on the bluegrass scene since the early ’80s He first came to attention with the New Quicksilver group, one of several progressive bluegrass outfits which he helped start up

Alan McIntosh Brown was born in the city of Dundee on the east coast of Scotland and lives in the Highland Perthshire village of Aberfeldy, where he has been a schoolteacher for almost 30 years

Alan Davis played both bass and keyboards on Looking Across These Fields, an album created by Texas country singer Emily Rogers when she was only 18 years old This is not the same person as the Allen Davis who plays bass in the High Violets

Alan Jackson Biography, Photos, Pictures

After Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson was the most popular male country singer of the ’90s An heir to the new traditionalist movement of the ’80s, Jackson’s approach was rooted in classic honky tonk yet remained comfortably within the contemporary mainstream

Few figures deserve greater credit for the preservation of America’s folk music traditions than Alan Lomax Scouring the backroads, honky tonks and work camps of the Deep South, he unearthed a treasure trove of songs and singers, documenting the music of the common man for future generations to discover; through Lomax’s pioneering efforts, cultural traditions ranging from the Delta blues to Appalachian folk to field hollers continue to live on, with his invaluable recordings offering a compelling portrait of times and cultures otherwise long gone