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| Age: | 101 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | KENTUCKY |
| Country: |  United States |
| Height: | 0' 0" |
| Zodiac: |  Pisces (Feb 19 - Mar 20) |
| Last Login: | Oct 17, 2008 (387 days back) |
About Me |
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| ..A Baptist minister from Lexington, Kentucky, Buell Kazee (1900-1976) was born in the Kentucky town of Burton's Fork. Kazee was a performer/collector of Appalachian folk songs (much like North Carolinian Bascom Lamar Lunsford and fellow Kentuckian Bradley Kincaid). He performed prepared programs with a scholarly approach for various audiences. Kazee came from a trained musical background and took pride in his presentation. Aside from Appalachian folk songs, his repertoire also included sentimental songs which he frequently insisted be included in his recordings and programs (Old Time Music, Summer 1976, pg. 17). Kazee recorded 58 songs for Brunswick during 1927-1929 and an additional LP for Folkways in 1958.From 1916 on, Kazee primarily considered himself a minister with music as a sideline. His precise banjo playing was also one of his strong points which he played in Appalachian clawhammer style. The song "The Butcher Boy" is a widespread Anglo-American ballad (see the references in Smith's notes). MyGen Profile Generator | |
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| The Appalachian Mountains have nurtured many fine traditional musicians, and the late Reverend Buell Kazee was one of the finest. He was born at the head of Burton Fork in Magoffin County in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, and was an extraordinary ballad singer, with a versatile voice and a profound sense of the place of the ballad in musical literature. As a Baptist minister he had a deep sense of tradition in both theology and music. Because most of his life was taken up with preaching and his duties to his congregation, he had a limited time for music. Yet when he performed, he did so with integrity and arresting style. He had an extensive repertoire of traditional music including rare ballads and songs. With his knowledge of both music and folklore, he preserved with discerning ear and voice the modes and styles of the past. Bess Lomax Hawes introduced him at the Newport Folk Festival as the man from whom so many modern folk singers, such as Joan Baez, had learned some of their songs. His banjo style was a unique variation on the traditional frailing style, and he played in as many as eleven different tunings.Although Brunswick Records released 52 numbers by Buell Kazee on 78 rpm recordings in the late 1920s, and Harry Smith included him in his influential Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952 (re-released by Smithsonian Folkways on CDs in 1997), his music was relatively unknown to the American public until Buell Kazee Sings and Plays was released by Folkways in 1958. However, Buell was not happy with this LP because the recording was done under informal conditions in his home over two days, and he felt he had not performed well. | |
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| MaritalStatus: | Married |
| Children: | Proud parent |
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| On June 9th,, 2007 at Appalshop's 21st Annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival for a special concert and celebration dedicated to Buell Kazee and to the CD re-release. Performers will include ... Posted by Buell Kazee on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:12:00 PST |
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