The Lost Recordings of Banjo Bill Cornett (FRC304)
by Art Rosenbaum
Reprinted here by permission of the Old Time Herald Magazine (April-May 2006 issue)
The Field Recorders’ Collective FRC304 CD is a self-recorded legacy of Banjo Bill Cornett, giving us what is arguably the finest very early-style mountain singing to banjo ever recorded. Cornett did play for others and in public—he played his “Old-Age Pension Blues” on the floor of the Kentucky Legislature, and according to John Cohen, “died while entertaining at a restaurant in Continue reading