The High Lonesome Sound (LP edition)

Roscoe Holcomb FW02368 / FA 2368

This third Folkways production featuring Roscoe Holcomb follows Mountain Music of Kentucky (FW02317) and The Music of Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward (FW2363). All three albums describe the social, geographical, and musical contexts that influenced Holcomb, and this volume's liner notes present selected transcriptions of interviews with this striking banjo player.
Country(s) United States
Culture Group(s) Anglo-American
Keyword(s) Ballads; Banjo music; Blues; Courtship; Disasters; Folk songs--United States; Hymns; Instrumental music; Murder; Music--Appalachian Region, Southern.; Opera; Regional; Sentimental; Spirituals (Songs); Topical songs; Wit and humor; Work songs
Instrument(s) Banjo; Fiddle; Guitar; Harmonica

Year of Recording 1965
Record Label Folkways Records
Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Credits Recorded by Peter Bartok ; Artist Roscoe Holcomb ; Produced by John Cohen

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