Alan Stoker: Former Archivist at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum - Nashville Banner

Alan Stoker: Former Archivist at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum - Nashville Banner

Not many people have held Hank Williams demo recordings with his handwriting on them. But Alan Stoker has. He recently retired from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, where he worked for 50 years, much of it spent preserving and archiving rare — and sometimes fragile — recordings. He was there long enough that some of the recordings he archived he returned to a second time in order to digitize. Alan was born into a musical family; his fa…