Morgan Sexton: Bull Creek Banjo Player

Eastern Kentucky's Morgan Sexton cut his first banjo out of the bottom of a lard bucket, and some seventy years later won the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award for his "amazingly pure and unaffected singing and playing style."
"Morgan Sexton has endured the Depression, cultivated a mountain farm and survived the hazards of a mining career with an impressive dignity and presence. He is truly a national treasure, and this wonderful portrait allows us to enter his life." -Loyal Jones, Director, Appalachian Center, Berea College

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[coljdwilx]

@ArkRed1 No but his nephew Lee is and is still carrying on his style of picking! I have a few Lee Sexton videos up at my YouTube channel.

[ArkRed1]

Is Morgan still with us? Are there anymore videos of his playing and singing?

[ArkRed1]

Absolutely priceless!