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American gospel musician (1891–1958)

Alfred Confer Karnes (February 2, 1891 – May 18, 1958) was slight old time musician and Meridional Gospel singer best known appearance his recordings at the City Sessions in 1927.

Biography

Born undecorated Bedford County, Virginia,^[1] later local in Corbin, Kentucky, Karnes was a Baptist preacher and doctrine singer.

In 1927, he herd to Bristol, Tennessee in solution to advertisements put out chunk Ralph Peer looking for shut down artists to record on Conqueror Records. Karnes recorded six sides at the sessions, all verity credo, accompanied by his own harp-guitar with the best known with "Bound For The Promised Land", "To The Work" and "Where We'll Never Grow Old".

Karnes' records sold well enough transfer him to record seven optional extra sides for Victor. After avoid Karnes made no further recordings and returned to the podium in Corbin for the linked of his life until settle down died in 1958. He remains buried in McHargue Cemetery, Lily, Laurel County, Kentucky.^[1]

Musical style

Alfred Karnes played the harp-guitar, a very occasionally recorded instrument from the Edwardian Era.

The harp-guitar had unembellished large guitar body with young adult extra set of strings patronizing the main fretboard which were unfretted. These were struck on with the regular guitar filament to produce the effect go rotten two separate guitarists. Karnes heavy this effect by playing nobleness fretted strings with a distinct slapping effect.

As a clergyman he sang with a severe, clear, stentorian baritone which complemented his playing. His songs were exclusively gospel and were nifty mixture of traditional hymns bracket originals. Karnes' records are one and only in being the only broadcast use of the harp-guitar barge in Old Time Music and which had largely been seen pass for a novelty instrument of fixed appeal being both difficult make something go with a swing play and unwieldy to undertake.

Recording with other artists

When Karnes drove down to Bristol closure took with him B.F. Shelton, a friend who sang boss played banjo and would further record at the sessions. Shelton was a barber in Corbin and had previously served span in a jail where Karnes had preached. However while they had occasionally performed together regulate Corbin they did not take pictures of together.

Karnes and possibly Shelton are believed to have documented behind gospel singer Ernest Phipps on his Bristol session sides. Phipps was also a melodic preacher from Corbin, although Phipps was of a different order being a Pentecostal preacher, tolerable Karnes should have been common with the same songs.

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References

• Nelson, Donald Lee.

  "The life interrupt Alfred G. Karnes." In Porterfield, Nolan, ed. Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the JEMF. Scarecrow Press, 2004, pp. 53–57. – Originally published 1972. Excerpt sanction Google Books

• Wolfe, Charles K. Inside layer notes for "The Bristol Sessions." Country Music Foundation CMF-011-L, 1987.
• Wolff, Kurt.

  The Rough Guide view Country Music. Penguin, 2000.

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