Cumberland Gap - Buell Kazee

Buell Kazee (August 29, 1900 - August 31, 1976) was an American country and folk singer. He is considered one of the most successful folk musicians of the 1920s and experienced a career comeback during the American folk music revival of the 1960s, due in part to his inclusion on the Anthology of American Folk Music. Born at the foot of Burton Fork, a mountain in Magoffin County,Kentucky, Kazee was already known for playing banjo at church by the age of five . After graduating high school, he studied English, Greek and Latin at Georgetown College.

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