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 ...

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 ...

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" ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Back by popular demand: Bill Junior and the Montana Rangers, a dynamic, traditional band that features “high-lonesome” bluegrass singing, will give a concert at the Myrna Loy Center on Thursday, June ...

The poignant songs of church-goers, miners, and farmers of Hazard in eastern Kentucky express the joys and sorrows of life among the rural poor. John Cohen of the old-time string band the New Lost ...