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The Camp Creek Males formed in the 1930s, but didn’t become influential in assisting preserve and promote old-time string music group music before folk revival from the 1960s. All the bandmembers hailed from Surrey Region in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Their innovator was banjo picker Kyle Creed, who was …

b. c. 1905, NEW YORK, USA, d. USA. Known chiefly like a fiddler, East also performed acoustic guitar. In the 30s he joined up with the Camp Creek Males, a superb old-time hill string music group, along with Kyle Creed (banjo), Fred Cockerham (fiddle/banjo), Paul Sutphin (acoustic guitar), Ronald Collins …