Biography: Alex Campbell & Ola Belle, Alex Harvey, Alex Morgan, Ali Jackson, Alice Gerrard, Alicia Bay Laurel, Alimony, Alisha Sufit, Alison Brown, Alison Krauss,

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Alex Campbell & Ola Belle Biography, Photos, Pictures

The roots of county music were echoed by the performances and recordings of Alex Campbell, his sister, Ola Belle, and their band, the New River Boys Appearing regularly on radio in Havre De Grace, MD, and then Pennsylvania, they brought their music to enthusiastic listeners for nearly four decades

A sometimes recording artist, songwriter Alex Harvey is responsible for penning such songs as “Delta Dawn” (by Tanya Tucker), “Reuben James” (by Kenny Rogers), and “Rings” (a country hit by the Glaser Brothers and a pop hit by Cymarron)

The song “Deadwater,” written by Alex Morgan and Doug Fesler, was described as a “hip selection” in a review of a CD by Lucky Tomblin Only one sort of person would claim to have heard of all three of these people, let alone claim they were hip, and that would be a resident of Austin whose taste in country & western runs so far underground that they have to bang on the ceiling to wake the gophers up

Credited as a background vocalist on the 2006 Alan Jackson album entitled Precious Memories, Ali Jackson should not be mistaken for either the jazz bassist or drummer of the same name, who happen to be father and son

Alice Gerrard Biography, Photos, Pictures

The daughter of trained classical musicians, Alice Gerrard didn’t grow up with bluegrass or folk music Her earliest musical memories are of singing along with family members and friends around the living room piano

Alicia Bay Laurel Biography, Photos, Pictures

Known by the public at-large primarily for her 1970 best-selling book, Living on the Earth, and her other writing and illustrating projects, Alicia Bay Laurel also established a fascinating musical history long before she finally made it onto a recording

In the late ’90s, country music got respectable in Sweden again, after 20 years of obscurity A few years of growing interest for American country was followed by a number of domestic lo-fi and alternative country bands that led the way for a wave of more pure country

Alisha Sufit Biography, Photos, Pictures

Alisha Sufit made some little-known recordings in the early 1970s as a guitarist and singer-songwriter with Magic Carpet (who did one rare album) and as a soloist (doing an album of material that wasn’t issued until the 1990s), using open guitar tunings and vocalizing in a manner extremely reminiscent of Joni Mitchell

Alison Brown Biography, Photos, Pictures

Progressive bluegrass banjoist Alison Brown made her name not only as a virtuosic instrumentalist, but as an accomplished, jazz-influenced composer, a combination that earned plenty of comparisons to Béla Fleck and David Grisman

Alison Krauss Biography, Photos, Pictures

Alison Krauss helped bring bluegrass to a new audience in the ’90s Blending bluegrass with folk, Krauss was instantly acclaimed from the start of her career, but it wasn’t until her platinum-selling 1995 compilation Now That I’ve Found You that she became a mainstream star