Bill Cornett
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| Gender | Male |
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| Born | Eastern Kentucky Coalfield |
| Died | Frankfort |
| Kentucky | |
| United States | |
| Genres | Folk |
| Albums | The Lost Recordings of Banjo Bill Cornett |
| Mountain Music of Kentucky | |
| Record labels | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Field Recorder's Collective | |
| Songs | Old Age Pension Blues |
| Born in Old Kentucky | |
| Hook and Line | |
| Old Reuben | |
| Hustling Gamblers | |
| Pretty Polly | |
| Sweet Willie | |
| Buck Creek Girls | |
| Barbara Allen | |
| Love Henry | |
| Fair and Tender Ladies | |
| Rambling for Pleasure | |
| The Rambling Boy | |
| Look Up and Down that Lonesome Road | |
| Banjo Bill talks | |
| Wild Bill Jones | |
| Cumberland Gap | |
| Look Down That Lonesome Road | |
| Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow | |
| John Henry | |
| My Dearest Dear | |
| Dying Cowboy | |
| Dying Soldier Boy | |
| I Can't Stay Here by Myself | |
| Cluck Old Hen | |
| Cripple Creek | |
| My Flowers, my Companions and Me | |
| Roll on John | |
| Wreck of the Old 97 | |
| Sourwood Mountain | |
| Drummer Boy | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 1148294 |
Bill Cornett Life story
"Banjo" Bill Cornett was a traditional folk singer and banjo player from Eastern Kentucky. Cornett was born on July 2, 1890 in Knott County, Kentucky. His music was recorded by John Cohen for Folkways and appears on the album Mountain Music of Kentucky.
