Allan Thomas Paley (March 19, 1928 – September 30, 2017) was an American guitarist, banjo and fiddle player.
After moving with his mother to California for several years in his early teens, he returned to New York and began learning the guitar and banjo, and visiting clubs where singers such as Lead Belly and Josh White performed.
It didn't feel particularly revolutionary to me but I understood we had quite an impact on young people like Dylan.Paley, both as a solo artist and as member of the New Lost City Ramblers, has been cited by many as a source and influence, among them Bob Dylan,[5] and The Grateful Dead.
He formed another group, the Old Reliable String Band with Roy Berkeley and Artie Rose,[4] before leaving the United States in 1963, when he and his wife Claudia went to live in Sweden.
[9] Collaboration – Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand, Tom Paley, Harry and Jeanie West.
Collaboration – Eric Weissberg, Tom Paley, Art Rosenbaum, Marshall Brickman.
Old Reliable String Band (Tom Paley, Roy Berkeley and Artie Rose).