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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, 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." And so by pure chance began the lifelong friendship that is the background for The High and Lonesome Sound. Cohen visited Holcomb frequently over the next three decades, and made many photographs, films and records of his music. In time Holcomb, a poor coal miner by trade, became a regular feature on the American concert and festival circuits. The strange beauty and discomfort of his music--a mixture of blues, ballads and Baptist hymns, and unique through his high strained voice--was exposed to a larger audience. 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." . - Engelsk tekst

Tittelnr	0889753
Standardtittel	[The high and lonesome sound : the legacy of Roscoe Holcomb]
Tittel	The high and lonesome sound : the legacy of Roscoe Holcomb
Forfatter	Cohen, John 1932-2019 (forfatter)
Medvirkende	Cohen, John . The high and lonesome sound : the legacy of Roscoe Holcomb
Språk	engelsk
Utgitt	Göttingen, Germany : Steidl , 2012
Utgave	First edition
Omfang	261 sider : illustrasjoner + 1 CD, 1 DVD (1 t)
Opplysninger	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, 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." And so by pure chance began the lifelong friendship that is the background for The High and Lonesome Sound. Cohen visited Holcomb frequently over the next three decades, and made many photographs, films and records of his music. In time Holcomb, a poor coal miner by trade, became a regular feature on the American concert and festival circuits. The strange beauty and discomfort of his music--a mixture of blues, ballads and Baptist hymns, and unique through his high strained voice--was exposed to a larger audience. 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." . - Engelsk tekst
Emner	Holcomb, Roscoe , 1912-1981 Bluegrass - Historie - USA
Sjanger	Fotografisamlinger
Dewey	781.642092
ISBN	9783869302546 (innbundet) : Nkr 524.00
Hylleplass	q 781.642092 HOL