How to pronounce “lunsford” in English

This was around 1900 when a college student named Bascom Lamar Lunsford was waiting for a train to take him back to Asheville, North Carolina.

And now, dear friends, here's Christopher Lunsford, or as many of you know him as, Oliver Anthony.

I mean, it's the reason why all the songs say Oliver Anthony and not Christopher Lunsford on them.

In 1928, this man, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, who was a college student when he learned this song in 1900,