Kyle Creed

Kyle Creed grew up in the Camp Creek area of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Surrey County, NC, and the region gave its name to the string band he formed, the Camp Creek Boys, in the 1930s with Fred Cockerman, Paul Sutphin, Ronald Collins, Ernest East, Verlin Clifton, and Roscoe Russell. The Camp Creek Boys, who ended up recording three albums for the County and Mountain labels in the 1960s, expanded on the normal banjo/fiddle/guitar string band configuration by adding an additional guitar and mandolin, and the group's high-energy take on traditional Appalachian dance reels was hi...