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The High Lonesome Sound (CD)

By: Roscoe Holcomb (Artist)

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Roscoe Holcomb Artist Snapshot:

One of the true treasures of Appalachian music, Roscoe Holcomb played banjo and guitar and sang like no one else. A coal miner and farmer for much of his life, Holcomb was discovered in 1959 by New Lost City Rambler John Cohen. By then, Holcomb was a fully formed musical island with an off-kilter two-fingered picking technique and an eerie voice that, even in high falsetto, had a forceful, reedy quality that Cohen described as "the high, lonesome sound." While that phrase has become synonymous with bluegrass singing, Holcomb is too rough around the edges for that genre's strict dictates and occupies instead an Appalachian hollow between bluegrass and the blues. Heralded by Bob Dylan, Holcomb became a fixture of the '60s folk revival and also toured with the Stanley Brothers. He died in 1981 after a long struggle with emphysema.

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DISC 1 for The High Lonesome Sound (CD) Album By Roscoe Holcomb (Artist)
1   Moonshiner
2   Old Smokey
3   Little Birdie
4   House In New Orleans
5   Trouble In Mind
6   Wandering Boy, The
7   Hook And Line
8   Married Life Blues
9   Omie Wise
10   Willow Tree
11   Boat's Up The River
12   In The Pines
13   Fox Chase
14   Little Gray Mule
15   I'm A Free Little Bird
16   Little Bessie
17   Motherless Children
18   Darlin Corey
19   Roll On Buddy
20   Village Churchyard, A
21   Walk Around My Bedside
 

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Review

Mojo (Publisher) (1/99, p.102) - "...What in other hands might have been no more than a job lot of old mountain songs...became in Holcomb's an opaque short-story collection of Appalachian life before highways and hot dogs..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Roscoe Holcomb (vocals, banjo); John Cohen (guitar); Mike Seeger (fiddle).

Includes liner notes by John Cohen.

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