About Me
Allen Singer plays guitar and sings folk, blues, country, traditional music, old time tunes, topical, and bluegrass music. He grew up listening to the music of The Carter Family, Jimmy Rodgers, The Almanac Singers, The Weavers, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston, Leadbelly, Sam Hinton, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Dave Von Ronk, The New Lost City Ramblers, The Greenbriar Boys, Doc Watson, and Bob Dylan. At night he listened to WWVA, a country music station from Wheeling, West Virginia, where he got a chance to hear Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubbs, Hank Snow, Ralph Stanley, Flatt and Scruggs, Johnny Cash and Mother Maybelle Carter.He played his first guitar chords during the 1960s folk revival in New York City. He flat and finger picks acoustic guitar and plays harmonica.
The new CD"Down the Road," takes you on a journey through American 20th century folk music, country blues, traditional and early country music. Starting with Woody Guthrie and ending with Bob Dylan. Along the way you'll hear the music of Jimmy Rodgers,The Delmore Brothers, Sam NcGee, (Gov)Jimmy Davis, Johnny Cash and Harlan Howard. Listen to some of the songs that set off the 1960's folk revival. My new CD is available at www.cdbaby.com/cd/allensinger and www.efolkmusic.com.
I'm Coordinator of The San Diego Folk Song Society www.sdfss.org and a
Board Member of San Diego Folk Heritage http://sdfolkheritage.org, a concert producing organization.
