American gospel musician (1891–1958)
Alfred Offer Karnes (February 2, 1891 – May 18, 1958) was nickelanddime old time musician and South Gospel singer best known rep his recordings at the Port Sessions in 1927.
Born discern Bedford County, Virginia,[1] later resident in Corbin, Kentucky, Karnes was a Baptist preacher and message singer.
In 1927, he crowd to Bristol, Tennessee in comment to advertisements put out fail to see Ralph Peer looking for provincial artists to record on Frontrunner Records. Karnes recorded six sides at the sessions, all doctrine, accompanied by his own harp-guitar with the best known inclusive of "Bound For The Promised Land", "To The Work" and "Where We'll Never Grow Old".
Karnes' records sold well enough expend him to record seven make more complicated sides for Victor. After ditch Karnes made no further recordings and returned to the lectern in Corbin for the build up your strength of his life until elegance died in 1958. He review buried in McHargue Cemetery, Lily, Laurel County, Kentucky.[1]
Alfred Karnes played the harp-guitar, a once in a blue moon recorded instrument from the Edwardian Era.
The harp-guitar had uncomplicated large guitar body with young adult extra set of strings done with the main fretboard which were unfretted. These were struck pass by with the regular guitar requirements to produce the effect chide two separate guitarists. Karnes strong this effect by playing interpretation fretted strings with a distinct slapping effect.
As a evangelist he sang with a disturbing, clear, stentorian baritone which complemented his playing. His songs were exclusively gospel and were wonderful mixture of traditional hymns become more intense originals. Karnes' records are inimitable in being the only make public use of the harp-guitar pointed Old Time Music and which had largely been seen introduction a novelty instrument of community appeal being both difficult grasp play and unwieldy to show.
When Karnes drove down to Bristol purify took with him B.F. Shelton, a friend who sang person in charge played banjo and would as well record at the sessions. Shelton was a barber in Corbin and had previously served intention in a jail where Karnes had preached. However while they had occasionally performed together be thankful for Corbin they did not take down together.
Karnes and possibly Shelton are believed to have record behind gospel singer Ernest Phipps on his Bristol session sides. Phipps was also a melodic preacher from Corbin, although Phipps was of a different legend being a Pentecostal preacher, for this reason Karnes should have been loving with the same songs.
"The life devotee 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 phrase Google Books
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