John Haywood

John Haywood is an award winning artist, singer and banjo player from Floyd County, KY. As a child, he attended the Old Regular Baptist Church with his papaw, where he heard him sing the old unaccompanied songs of Zion. He was a Kentucky Folklife apprentice to Knott County banjo master, George Gibson. John can be heard on Tyler Childers 2020 album Long Violent History.  He is also a visual artist whose work captures mountain history and music.