Dick Burnett Burnett & Rutherford Leonard Rutherford

There is a vintage photograph from the '20s that has been frequently used to evoke an old-time mood. It depicts two musicians sitting on a front porch, instruments in their hands and at their feet. There is a fiddler who is staring at the camera, and at his right a banjo player who seems to be staring off into the heavens. Despite the frequency with which this photo pops up, the musicians who are illustrated are largely forgotten. The man with the banjo was Dick Burnett and he was actually one of the most prominent old-time players from Kentucky during the '20s and '30s. He wa...