A Baltimore native, Billy Kemp is a song and music maker, mostly roots music. Kemp has recorded seven solo records and written over three hundred songs. He lives on the edge of the Cumberland Plateau in middle Tennessee with his wife, Sue and their cat Minnie and their dog, Mavis.

The Smithville Fiddlers’ Jamboree
Later that evening they gave out the awards for that days competitions on the stage, bringing all three finalists up. They called the third place winners, not us, they called the second place winners, not us, and then they called the first place winners and we finally heard our names. What a hoot…