{"product_id":"the-high-lonesome-sound-the-legacy-of-roscoe-holcomb","title":"The High \u0026 Lonesome Sound: The Legacy of Roscoe Holcomb","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 Cohens 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 Cohens words  \"not just a rendition of music  but a test of something to be overcome.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946479448117,"sku":"ByrdShop_3869302542","price":55.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783869302546.jpg?v=1769951835","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-high-lonesome-sound-the-legacy-of-roscoe-holcomb","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}