Although Alfred Karnes' intense singing and propulsive guitar playing suggest eastern Kentucky,he was actually a Virginian, born in Bedford County in1898, He lived for many years in Corbin, Kentucky, and was associated with Rev. Ernest Phipps' Free Pentecostal#s1 Holiness Church there, In later years he lived in Florida, preaching there occasionally, sometimes on radio or television, until his death in 1958,
Alfred G, Karnes, vocal, guitar.
Bristol TN 7/29/27 Victor 20860
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