Buell Kazee
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Buell Kazee (August 29, 1900 - August 31, 1976) was an American country and folk singer. He is considered the most successful folk musicians of the 1920s and experienced a career comeback during the American folk music revival of the 1960s due in part to his inclusion on the Anthology of American Folk Music.
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[edit] Early life
Buell Kazee was born at the foot of Burton Fork, Kentucky, a mountain in Magoffin County. By the age of five, Kazee found publicity playing banjo at church. After he graduated high school, he studied English, Greek and Latin at Georgetown College. At that time he began the importance of traditional ballads, which he learned from his parents, too. After moving to the music and singing had changed, he wrote the pieces and fit them just a little taste of the contemporary. When he 1925 the college left with the conclusion that he was a little concert, on the banjo, and he played piano and sang. Due to the success of this appearance, he repeated it several times.
[edit] Career
1927 he received from the Brunswick Records an inquiry whether his recordings in their studio was interested. After he traveled to New York and was there made it, he signed with the label. His first publication was Roll On John on the side and John Hardy on the B-side. Over the next two years, he, supported by several New York musicians, 51 boards, including hits like Gray Lady, The Sporting Bachelors or The Little Orphan Child. His greatest success, however, On Top Of Old Smoky, which is sold over 15,000 times. His books were often dominated by religious subjects, but also everyday problems that were treated. After the already married Kazee beginning of the 1930s to the Vocalion label change was made soon after its success, the World Economic crisis intensified. He moved more and more from the music business and worked the next 22 years as a pastor in Morehead, Kentucky.
[edit] Withdrawal and revival
Kazee appeared only rarely on and devoted himself entirely to his profession that he actually wanted to exercise as a teenager. In the 1960s, folk music was popular, and stars such as Bob Dylan brought forth, Kazee used the opportunity and started a comeback. In addition to tours and joint appearances with other former folk stars like Dock Boggs and Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson at the Newport Folk Festival, he again drives. His greatest success this time was The White Pilgrim. Even as a writer, he is successful, he published a total of three books.
Buell Kazee died on 31 August 1976 at the age of 76 years.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Singles
| Song titles | Catalog Number | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brunswick | |||
| Roll On John / John Hardy | 144 | ||
| Rock Island / Old Whisker Bill | 145 | ||
| Darling Cora / East Virginia | 154 | ||
| The Ship That’s Sailing High On The Water / If You Love Your Mother | 155 | ||
| The Roving Cowboy / The Little Mohee | 156 | ||
| The Old Maid / The Sporting Bachelors | 157 | ||
| Faded Coat Of Blue / Don’t Forget Me, Little Darlin’ | 206 | Pseudonym of Ray Lyncy | |
| Snow Deer / Red Wing | 210 | with Sookie Hobbs; Red Wing originally by Riley Puckett | |
| The Orphan Girl / Poor Little Orphan Boy | 211 | ||
| The Cowboy’s Farewell / Lady Gray | 212 | ||
| The Wagoner’s Lads / The Butcher’s Boy (The Railroad Boy) | 213 | ||
| The Dying Soldier / Short Life Of Trouble | 214 | ||
| Little Bessie / My Mother | 215 | Little Bessie later covered by the Alabama Barnstomers | |
| In The Shadow Of The Pines / You Taught Me How To Love | 216 | ||
| Poor Boy Long Way From Home / You Are False But I’ll Forgive You | 217 | ||
| Married Girl’s Troubles / Gamblin’ Blues | 218 | ||
| Steel-A-Goin’ Down / The Hobo’s Last Ride | 330 | ||
| A Mountain Boy Makes His First Record / A Mountain Boy Makes His First Record, Pt. 2 | 338 | ||
| Toll The Bells / The Blind Man | 351 | ||
| Roving Cowboy / Little Mohee | 436 | ||
| The Waggoner’s Lad / The Butcher’s Boy (The Railroad Boy) | 437 | ||
| Cowboy Trail / I’m Rolling Along | 481 | ||
| Vocalion | |||
| In The Shadow Of The Pines / You Taught Me How To Love Now You Teach Me To Forg | 5221 | ||
| My Mother / Little Bessie | 5231 | Brunswick 215 | |
[edit] Albums
| Year | Album Title | Label | Catalog Number | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Buell Kazee Sings and Plays | |||
| 1978 | Buell Kazee | June Appal Recordings | JA0009 | Reissued in 2007 |
| 2005 | Legendary Kentucky |
