December 27, 2021

Buell Kazee Sings and Plays

Folkways Records – FS 3810
Folkways Records – FS 3810

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Released: 1958
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
[Tracklist]
A01 East Virginia (4:11)
A02 Butcher's Boy (4:28)
A03 Dance Around My Pretty Little Miss (8:55)
A04 Wagoner's Lad (3:11)
A05 Yellow Pups / Fox Chase (5:02)
A06 John Hardy (2:37)
B01 John enry (2:28)
B02 The Moonshiner (1:50)
B03 Darling Corey (1:47)
B04 Cumberland Gap (1:54)
B05 Cock Robin (2:15)
B06 Old Grey Mare (1:28)
B07 Amazing Grace (2:21)
B04 When Moses (2:32)
B08 My Christian Friends (3:50)
B09 Bread of Heaven (2:39)
B10 Eternity (2:37)
B11 The White Pilgrim (0:47)
[Credits]
Buell Kazee (banjo/vocals)
Producer & Recorder: Gene Bluestein, Liner Notes: Buell Kazee, Photographer: Jack Rosenthal
[Noted]
Buell Kazee (1900–1976) grew up playing the five-string banjo in the traditional frailing style ("thrashing" style, as he called it). As a teenager, he began to study religion and ended up spending most of his life as a preacher. Despite his view that banjo music "did not harmonize" with the life of the church, he remained a musician and began recording in 1927 (several of his recordings appear on the Anthology of American Folk Music.

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