Al The Drummer

I moved away from Nashville in 1995 and from that point on, I only saw Alan a couple of times a year. Whenever I saw him, we would stay up late partying and talking and he would fill me in on his latest musical adventures, often playing me videos of recent shows.

This morning, I've been combing through Alan's MySpace page, where he went by Al The Drummer. It turns out that I had no idea just how active he was in the Nashville music scene during the last years of his life. Using the info in Alan's blog postings on MySpace, I have determined that between September of 2006 and December 2008, Alan performed on Nashville-area stages at least 45 times.

The following is a partial list of the artists and bands that Alan played with during this time. These names are presented the way Alan himself billed the bands in his posts, so there are duplicates here because of band name changes, etc., but still ...

• Tim Jones and the Orphan's Friends
• Reigning Hounds
• Whiskey Biscuit
• Tim Jones, Ann Tilley and Carole Edwards
• David Lee Slate
• Ann Tilley and Carole Edwards
• The Carole Edwards Band
• Tim Jones, Carole Edwards and Friends
• The Ann Tilley Band
• Carole Edwards and Ann Tilley
• Tim Jones and Ann Tilley
• The Usual Suspects (Carole Edwards, Dean Goodsell, Dave Jones, Tim Jones and Ann Tilley)
• Taproot
• Moonrocks
• Root Soup (formerly Taproot)
• Moontraxx (formerly Moonrocks)
• Juana Rock
• Dave Jones, Tim Jones and Dean Goodsell
• The Jay Patten Band