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The High & Lonesome Sound
John Cohen
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Description for The High & Lonesome Sound
Hardcover. 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. This title tells his story. Num Pages: 264 pages, ill. BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 270 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1490.
"The music of Roscoe Holcomb transcends daily life. Although it is grounded in Appalachia, in East Kentucky, in his little town of Daisy, his music travels like it is on a path towards a distant star." John Cohen 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 ... Read more
"The music of Roscoe Holcomb transcends daily life. Although it is grounded in Appalachia, in East Kentucky, in his little town of Daisy, his music travels like it is on a path towards a distant star." John Cohen 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Steidl Publishers Germany
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Gottingen, Germany
ISBN
9783869302546
SKU
V9783869302546
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