Click to open image viewer. Roscoe Holcomb (1911-1981) was recorded by Smithsonian folklorist John Cohen in 1959. That recording led to performances at bluegrass festivals and an international tour ...

Roscoe Holcomb, who died in 1981, was the purest exponent of Kentucky banjo playing. By Billboard Staff Roscoe Holcomb, who died in 1981, was the purest exponent of Kentucky banjo playing. A dazzling ...

Roscoe Holcomb was one of America’s greatest banjo players, a musician whose haunting vocal intonations, Old Regular Baptist in tradition, gave Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton the chills and gave John ...

Folklorist Alan Lomax threw a house party at his New York City home in 1961 to fete the folk musicians -- Roscoe Holcomb, Clarence Ashley and Doc Watson -- in town for a concert thrown b… By Phil ...

Roscoe Holcomb’s Moonshiner — a man, a voice raw and equal parts whiskey and coal, a single high and lonesome refrain beat over and over. This post is from Observer Short List—an email of three ...

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - What do Rick James' funk classic "Super Freak," Appalachian folk singer Roscoe Holcomb's "Across the Rocky Mountain" and Bruce Hornsby's "Mandolin Rain" have in common? The ...

DVD compilation by Shanachie Entertainment Corp. released in 2010 contains two films by Cohen featuring Roscoe Holcomb, including The High and Lonesome Sound (1963), and Roscoe Holcomb from Daisy, ...

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January 11, 2002 • On this edition of All Songs Considered we look at some of the artists responsible for 2001's folk music revival. Featured artists: Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley, Jimmie Rodgers and ...