High Lonesome Sound Songwriter Round is a recurring songwriter round that features artists from SWFL High Lonesome Sound Songwriter Round is a recurring songwriter round that features artists from ...

With bluegrass now more than 60 years old, you’d think there’d be nothing new under the sun when it comes to the high lonesome sound that Bill Monroe fashioned in the mid-1940s. The rock-bluegrass ...

Odds are you haven’t heard of Roscoe Holcomb. If you’re a fan of American music, though, his is most certainly a voice worth hearing. Holcomb was the “high lonesome” singer of eastern Kentucky, a man ...

Just because we ain’t got the Great Smoky Mountains and fields of Kentucky bluegrass in this here desert don’t mean we ain’t got folks playing a bunch of acoustic stringed instruments and singing a ...

In his search for traditional mountain music, John Cohen came to Kentucky in 1959 in an old car that kept breaking down. "Every gas station I'd go to, I'd ask, 'Any banjo players around here?,' and ...

For Jamey Johnson, 2006 had its ups and downs. First, the Alabama-born singer-songwriter and his wife of four years split up. Then his record label, for which he had scored the Top-20 hit "The Dollar" ...

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When Bill Monroe came up with bluegrass–“this high, lonesome sound,” as people called it at the time–banjo players used the clawhammer style. They flailed with their fingers and hands to play chords.

Remembering the High Lonesome is the story of the making of a classic documentary film. It is also a profile of filmmaker, photographer, artist, and musician John Cohen. Through interviews, as well as ...

Smithsonian Folkways: SF 40079 (on container: SF CD 40104; on insert: SF CD 40079). Folk music, primarily for voice with banjo or guitar, or unaccompanied voice. Thirteenth selection for harmonica ...

The artist—best identified with a top hat—plays guitar, banjo, and ukulele in the band. His background vocals are vital to the group’s uniquely country-rock sound that has ruled for decades. Several ...