roscoe holcomb's high lonesome sound
...lonesome sound
holcomb was a coal miner and a farmer and, in the end, something of a steward for a host of traditional appalachian folk songs. hymns and ballads and old-time music, borne of pre-modern rural life. the high lonesome sound , recorded over fifteen years and released by john cohen and smithsonian folkways , collects twenty-one...
