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Kentucky Moonshiner

from Gone Boy by Brett Ratliff

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The origin of the song “Kentucky Moonshiner” is still a fluid history, but the earliest recording of the song I’m aware of is by Buell Kazee, a Magoffin County, Kentucky banjo player, who titled it “Old Whisky Bill, The Moonshiner,” (Brunswick E 22500, April 19, 1927). My version of the song was learned from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky and uses a rare minor tune that is likely nearest to Gilbert R. Combs’ tuning of “Kentucky Moonshiner,” as collected by Carl Sandburg in American Songbag, published in 1927.

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from Gone Boy, released November 1, 2017

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Brett Ratliff Fayetteville, Arkansas

Brett Ratliff is a 2022 United States Artists Fellow in Traditional Arts. Ratliff teaches and performs traditional Appalachian musical styles and repertoire both at home and abroad, and has contributed to more than a dozen recordings, including for Smithsonian Folkways, June Appal Recordings, The Kentucky Center for Traditional Music, Old Town School of Folk Music, and The Oxford American. ... more

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