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A Gathering of the Tribes

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Mountain Man

Amazing footage of Roscoe Holcomb at his house in Daisy, Kentucky, high up in the Appalachian Mountains. This guy is straight out of a movie. Born in 1911, he had been playing banjo on his porch in the mountains since his retirement from the coal mines. He was discovered by a folklorist in the 1960's and recorded a few albums, all featuring the scraggly, eerie tone in his voice. Bob Dylan described the way he sang as, "an untamed sense of control." He has a slightly otherworldly presence...I don't know how many people like Roscoe are left. I would've loved to have met him.
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