Description: Billy Faier. Born in Brooklyn, New York on Dec. 21, l930. Moved to Woodstock, New York in l945 with family. Started playing banjo, guitar, and singing folk songs at seventeen, in 1947. Recorded for Riverside Records, Elektra Records, Tradition Records, and many other labels over the years.
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Hear what sixty years of banjo playing can do to a person. Compact Disks Tablature Memorabilia The Green Flash Texas Guns and Texas Music The Magic House In 1964, Billy’s album The Beast of Billy Faier was released. It included the song Folksinger’s Heaven. He wrote:
“. . . There’ll be a great Hootenanny by and by
There’ll be some folksong singin’ in the sky