Alan Munde (pronounced "mun-dee") (born November 4, 1946) is an American five-string banjo player and bluegrass musician.

He frequently played amateur gigs around the state where he first met Byron Berline at the University of Oklahoma.

Munde moved to Kentucky in January 1969 after he had graduated from college to play with Wayne Stewart and Sam Bush in a group called Poor Richard's Almanac.

Wayne Stewart had this idea for a group with this kid he knew in Kentucky named Sam Bush, who was probably 15.

Not long after, I got my draft notice, but before I left, Sam, Wayne and I made this tape, later released by Ridge Runner Records, called Poor Richard's Almanac, that was a lot of the instrumental things we were doing.

I then went back to Oklahoma, was rejected by the Army, and worked in Norman that summer.For this first album, Muleskinner News reviewer Bill Vernon observed that Alan Munde: puts his accomplished technique and wealth of ideas to full use[3].

After a European tour, the Burritos split up and Munde joined Country Gazette, then consisting of Roger Bush on bass, Kenny Wertz on guitar, and on the fiddle, Byron Berline, who had formed Country Gazette earlier in the year.