ALLEN is excited to continue the relationship that started with Ray and Randy Cramer in the band "Shucks", the band that garnered much country music attention in the late 80's and early 90's.

Allen plays both bass guitar and string bass, and provides back-up and lead vocals. He started playing bass in high school and went on to major in music at Lebanon Valley College. After college he started a widely varied music career, in which he toured extensively in much of the U.S., Europe and Puerto Rico. His start in country music was with a Central PA band, "Cole Train." He was a member of the "Younger Brothers Band" who had two hits on the national charts. After the Younger Brothers broke up, he helped form "Shucks" with the Cramer Brothers and Terry Gehman (of Anjoli Productions.) Shucks was a tremendously successful band, scoring a #1 song on the national independent record chart with the song, "I Love to Dance", winning the state championship of the Wrangler Showdown in 1989, and attracting scores of fans.

You might have caught Allen playing in groups such as "Blitz Dynette", "The Maxwell Project", "Curbstone and the Rock Hard Horns", "Chris Woodward and Shindiggin", and the “Herm Miller Big Band”, or in various area theatres such as Mt. Gretna, Allenberry, and the Harrisburg Community Theatre at Whitaker Center in Harrisburg. Allen has played for Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Robert Goulet, Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell, the Platters, and the Smothers Brothers. He also appeared with Sally Struthers in the show "Always, Patsy Cline."

Allen recently retired from public school teaching. He was a band director in the Carlisle Area School District for 26 years. He is now working with his wife, Cindy, in her photography business, “Cindy Roth Photography”. Cindy also teaches middle school special education in the Boiling Springs School District.

Allen resides in central PA and has two daughters. Abbi, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, is a singer, song-writer, and bass player working on numerous projects. She also works for an on-line magazine for bass players, “Bass Frontiers”. Autumn attends Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. She is a communications major and loves being in the sun and warmth of the south!