Dick Burnett (musician)

Dick Burnett
Dick Burnett with banjo and beggar's cup
Background information
Born
Richard Daniel Burnett

(1883-10-08)October 8, 1883
Monticello, Kentucky, United States
DiedJanuary 23, 1977(1977-01-23) (aged 93)
GenresFolk
OccupationsMusician, songwriter
InstrumentsFiddle, banjo, Appalachian dulcimer, guitar
LabelColumbia
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Richard Daniel Burnett (October 8, 1883 – January 23, 1977) was an American folk musician and songwriter from Kentucky.

Burnett was born near Monticello, Kentucky. Blind for most of his life, he was a full-time travelling entertainer. With fiddler Leonard Rutherford, he formed a long touring partnership and a brief recording career in which they sang a number of popular and influential sides with Burnett on banjo or guitar.

Burnett has been described as "one of the great natural songsters, a man who collected, codified, and transmitted some of our best traditional songs. Dick was also a skilful composer and folk poet of considerable skill; his "Man of Constant Sorrow" remains one of the most evocative country songs."

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