Morgan Sexton

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Eastern Kentucky’s Morgan Sexton cut his first banjo out of the bottom of a lard bucket, and some 70 years later won the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Heritage Award for his “amazingly pure and unaffected singing and playing style.” He is a giant of old-time music, and the subject of an Appalshop documentary, “Morgan Sexton: Banjo Player from Bull Creek;” Morgan’s nephew Lee Sexton also released a record on Appalshop’s label June Appal Recordings. Several tracks from “Rock Dust” also appear on “Shady Grove,” Morgan’s other June Appal release.