Poster of Roscoe Holcomb from Daisy, Kentucky

Roscoe Holcomb from Daisy, Kentucky

Plot: Roscoe Holcomb was one of America’s greatest banjo players, a musician whose haunting vocal intonations, Old Regular Baptist in tradition, gave Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton the chills and gave John Cohen’s 1963 film High Lonesome Sound its name. Drawing on footage he shot in 1962 and 1974 in Daisy, Kentucky, Cohen made this incredibly moving portrait of Holcomb, for whom the holy spirit always rose up plain and true: “Sometimes, you know, you feel like playing certain songs
Release Date: Friday, January 1 2009
14 years ago
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Portrait of Jem CohenJem Cohen
Jem Cohen was
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Mon, Jan 01 1962