Kuvaus
Kappaleet:
A1 Single Girl
A2 Black Eyed Suzie
A3 East Virginia Blues
A4 John Henry
A5 Swanno Mountain
B1 Rocky Mountain
B2 The Village Churchyard
Julkaisija: Mississippi Records
A LOST RECORDING OF UNTAMED APPALACHIAN MUSIC.
In 1972, the renowned and singular folk musician Roscoe Holcomb left his home in rural Daisy, Kentucky and embarked on a west coast tour with Mike Seeger, which included a performance at The Old Church in Portland, Oregon – a beautiful Carpenter Gothic church built in 1882.
Decades later, two particular reels were discovered deep within a pile of 1/4” tape in a shadowy corner of the KBOO Community Radio archives in Portland. Incredibly, those tapes contained the sole surviving evidence of a strikingly intimate and raw performance by Roscoe Holcomb, whose cascading and haunting banjo, guitar and voice echoed and saturated the room and hushed audience.
In contrast to Roscoe’s rarely documented (and at times restrained) live performances at folk festivals and television programs, Roscoe seems to have felt more familiar and spiritually moved in the old church that night. Heard here are standout versions of Appalachian folk-blues classics such as Single Girl, John Henry, East Virginia Blues, Swanno Mountain and more.
Recorded live at the Old Church, Portland, Oregon, 1972
