Charles Kellogg (’The Nature Singer’) - Songs of Our Native Birds (1915)

I suspect that the recordings made by Charles Kellogg are not regarded with great esteem nowadays. If this is the case, the attitude is quite unjustified, as the sheer musicality of what he did shines through his performances. Kellogg’s ’Songs of Our Native Birds’ was recorded for Victor at Camden, NJ, on 15 and 16 February 1915. From Wikipedia: Charles Kellogg (October 2, 1868 – September 5, 1949) was an American vaudeville performer who imitated bird songs, and later a campaigner for the protection of the redwood forests of California. He was born on a ranch in Susanville, California and grew up in the 1870s observing the animals and birds of the forests and learning outdoor skills... Kellogg grew up without his mother in the High Sierras where his father Henry Kellogg and Richard Thompson had discovered Gopher Hill Gravel Mine. His a store that catered to prospectors. With father busy, he was raised at his home, Spanish Ranch, by a native American nanny and a