Richard Burnett

There are at least two artists named Richard Burnett: a British classical keyboardist and an American folk songwriter. Richard Burnett has recorded several albums of early, baroque, and classical music on historic instruments, including the harpsichord, virginal, clavichord, and fortepiano. Richard Dick Burnett (October 8, 1883 – January 23, 1977) was an American folk songwriter from Kentucky . Burnett was born near Monticello, Kentucky. He was known to play the fiddle and was blind in one eye.