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In 1959 John Cohen travelled to East Kentucky looking for what he calls old music.

In 1959 John Cohen travelled to East Kentucky looking for what he calls old music. Cohen asked for names at local gas stations but soon ran out of leads. Most of you will know John Cohen for his work with the New Lost City Ramblers and Roscoe Holcomb, often recorded by Cohen, for his haunting, "high lonesome" ballad singing style. Cohen is also an accomplished photographer, and this book, unlike "There Is No Eye" focuses on his photographs of Holcomb and other Southern Appalachian musicians.

John Cohen's photographs of Kentucky musician Roscoe Holcomb evoke a rural way of life that has all but . Though they had little in common, Cohen and Holcomb became friends and this book is a testament to an often strange and stilted friendship.

John Cohen's photographs of Kentucky musician Roscoe Holcomb evoke a rural way of life that has all but disappeared, writes Sean O'Hagan. We walked two paths simultaneously," writes Cohen, "and neither was truly visible to the other, nor close to the surface. It is essentially a book of black-and-white photographs taken on Cohen's wanderings through East Kentucky in 1959, Virginia in 1961 and North Carolina in 1965.

John Cohen In 1959 John Cohen traveled to East Kentucky looking for what he calls old music. Text by John Cohen with a DVD with two films about Roscoe Holcomb and a CD with music of Roscoe Holcomb. Cohen asked for names at local gas stations but soon ran out of leads, and drove off the highway onto the next dirt road. Here he stumbled across Roscoe Holcomb playing the banjo and singing on his front porch in a way says Cohen, that made the hairs on my neck stand up on end.

In 1959 John Cohen travelled to East Kentucky looking for what he calls "old music Nevertheless Holcomb died alone in a nursing home in 1981

In 1959 John Cohen travelled to East Kentucky looking for what he calls "old music. Nevertheless Holcomb died alone in a nursing home in 1981. The High and Lonesome Sound combines Cohen's vintage photos, film and musical recordings as well as an anecdotal text into a multimedia tribute to this underappreciated legend of American music whose every performance was in Cohen's words "not just a rendition of music, but a test of something to be overcome.

The High Lonesome Sound by Roscoe Holcomb, released 20 January 1998 1. .Accompanied by extensive new notes and photographs by John Cohen. Roscoe Holcomb is a true genius. Moonshiner 2. On Top of Old Smoky 3. Little Birdie 4. House in New Orleans (House of the Rising Sun) 5. Trouble in Mind 6. The Wandering Boy 7. Hook and Line 8. Married Life Blues 9. Omie Wise 10. Willow Tree 11. Boat's Up the River 12. In the Pines 1. Walk Around My Bedside The legendary Roscoe Holcomb performs 21 powerful songs shaped by the hard times and conflict between old and new that marked his life in the Kentucky mountains. San Francisco Chronicle.

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In 1959 John Cohen travelled to East Kentucky looking for what he calls "old music" Nevertheless Holcomb died alone in a nursing home in 1981

In 1959 John Cohen travelled to East Kentucky looking for what he calls "old music". The High and Lonesome Sound combines Cohen's vintage photos, film and musical recordings as well as an anecdotal text into a multimedia tribute to this underappreciated legend of American music whose every performance was in Cohen's words "not just a rendition of music, but a test of something to be overcome".

Roscoe Holcomb, (born Roscoe Halcomb September 5, 1912 – died February 1, 1981) was an American singer, banjo player, and . The High & Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb. ISBN 978-3-86930-254-6.

Roscoe Holcomb, (born Roscoe Halcomb September 5, 1912 – died February 1, 1981) was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky. A prominent figure in Appalachian folk music, Holcomb was the inspiration for the term "high, lonesome sound," coined by folklorist and friend John Cohen. The "high lonesome sound" term is now used to describe bluegrass singing, although Holcomb was not, strictly speaking, a bluegrass performer. Roscoe Holcomb in 1962. Background information.

When John Cohen met Holcomb in Daisy, Kentucky, in 1959, Holcomb was . Cohen would eventually-and famously-describe this as the high lonesome sound. For years, he couldn’t even unpack his own response to it. I thought it was modern, but also ancient.

When John Cohen met Holcomb in Daisy, Kentucky, in 1959, Holcomb was forty-seven years old and had never made a recording, nor had he ever considered a career as a musician. Cohen is deliberate on this point; Holcomb wasn’t rediscovered, like some of those other players, he was divined, realized. It was really rural, but appealed to my avant-garde tastes somehow, he said.