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The old-timey folksinger Richard Burnett hailed from Monticello, Kentucky. Created in 1883, he was blinded inside a robbery attempt in 1907, and became a specialist vocalist and banjo participant quickly afterward. His ballad entitled “Farewell Music” was later on adapted in to the folk regular “A GUY of Regular Sorrow.” …

Richard Burnett (vocals, guitar, banjo) and Leonard Rutherford (fiddle) were a well-known string band duo in southern central Kentucky within the 1920s and 1930s, plus they stayed energetic as performers in to the 1950s. They’re most widely known for the archaic-sounding ballad “Willie Moore,” that was included on Harry Smith’s …

British pianist Richard Burnett is really a collector of vintage pianos whose house may be the eighteenth century Georgian mansion Finchcocks, situated in Kent, Britain. The Finchcocks Living Museum of Music, since it is called, provides played host to numerous concert shows, and especially, recordings of early music, the last …