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, 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 and has been performing and playing guitar since the early 1960's.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 the CD and download the songs and music that set off the 1960's folk revival. He leads the San Diego Folk Song Society, created in 1957 by Sam Hinton, a great American folk Singer, diatonic harmonica player and folklorist. He's also on the board of San Diego Folk Heritage, a concert producing organization in Southern California. He plays a Collings D2h BaA 1998 guitar, 1955 Gibson J-45 guitar, Huss and Dalton CM-C Brazilian guitar and a Martin/Ditson Dreadnaught111 guitar......