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Roscoe Holcomb Discography of CDs See all 15 items
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Roscoe Holcomb songs Alternate spellings: CD discography of songs by band, discographie, dicography, discology, disography, discografie, discogrophy, diskography.
 Roscoe Holcomb Songs
Popular or famous Roscoe Holcomb music songs: Little Birdie, Boat's up the River, Trouble in Mind, Moonshiner, Omie Wise, Motherless Children, Roll on Buddy. More music songs Village Churchyard, Walk Around My Bedside, Fox Chase, Hook and Line, House in New Orleans, I'm a Free Little Bird, In the Pines. More music songs Little Bessie, Little Gray Mule, Married Life Blues, Wandering Boy, Willow Tree, Graveyard Blues.
Roscoe Holcomb Biography
Roscoe Holcomb CD discography One of the true treasures of Appalachian music, Artist 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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Roscoe Holcomb music CDs Contemporaries
Doc Watson, The Stanley Brothers, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Josh White, Uncle Dave Macon, Dock Boggs, Mike Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Tom Ashley, John Jacob Niles, Cousin Emmy, Hobart Smith, Snuffy Jenkins
Roscoe Holcomb CD discography Followers
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, John Fahey, Will Oldham, Akron/Family, Oakley Hall, Jack Rose, Iris DeMent, The Sunburned Hand of the Man, Karen Dalton, The New Lost City Ramblers, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mike Seeger, Hazel Dickens, The Pine Hill Haints, Death Vessel, Tom Paley, John Cohen
Influences
Carter Family, Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Dock Boggs, Barbecue Bob, Frank Hutchison, Grayson & Whitter
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