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Appalachian singer/songwriter Nimrod Workman was created in Martin Region, KY in 1895. Called for his full-blooded Cherokee grandfather, Workman became a coal miner at age 14, an profession he remaining in 1952 after experiencing Dark lung and back again complications. Like many miners at that time, no payment was allotted …

Music played a significant part in the first existence of John Jacob Niles, and he’d spend his existence collecting, composing, and executing folk tunes. By age 15 he previously begun collecting tunes in the Appalachian Mountains, a habit he’d continue while providing like a ferry pilot in the U.S. Air …

A fantastic and highly interesting singer/songwriter who’s based in NEW YORK, Curtis Eller has successfully brought a number of affects to his unorthodox folk-rock eyesight. The banjo-playing Eller’s function comes with an old-time experience, drawing on a good amount of immediate or indirect affects in the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s …