The High Lonesome Sound: Kentucky Mountain Music

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1963

Creator: John Cohen

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Describes the folk music and hard life of the coal mining area of the eastern Kentucky mountains. Includes music by Roscoe Holcomb, the Shepherd family, Regular Baptist Church, Holiness Church of God, and Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. Glimpses the various types of ballads, spirituals, bluegrass, and rock and roll music in their original environment., Presents folk music and spirituals sung by the mountain people of eastern Kentucky: an unemployed worker, coal miners, church congregations, and members of a miner's family. Explains that these songs are the means by which the people hold to their traditions and dignity while living in a depressed area. Includes performances by banjo-player Roscoe Holcomb and Bill Monroe.

Complete Record: Describes the folk music and hard life of the coal mining area of the eastern Kentucky mountains. Includes music by Roscoe Holcomb, the Shepherd family, Regular Baptist Church, Holiness Church of God, and Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. Glimpses the various types of ballads, spirituals, bluegrass, and rock and roll music in their original environment., Presents folk music and spirituals sung by the mountain people of eastern Kentucky: an unemployed worker, coal miners, church congregations, and members of a miner's family. Explains that these songs are the means by which the people hold to their traditions and dignity while living in a depressed area. Includes performances by banjo-player Roscoe Holcomb and Bill Monroe. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.