Special to the Wheeling Daily Register, Jan. 20, 1894: WILD E, W. Va., January 19. – John Hardy, for killing Thomas Drews, both colored, was hung at 2:09 p.m. to-day. Three thousand people witnessed his death. His neck was broken and […]
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Roots music isn’t all about the shine on your boots or the twang in your voice. It can also get funky as all get-out. Case in point: the solo debut from revered sideman Nigel Hall, out this week. It’s one […]
Roscoe Holcomb packed a vocal wail sufficient to puncture a hole in the fabric of the universe. Welling up out of a place of terror and beauty, that voice inspired folk song collector/New Lost City Rambler John Cohen to coin […]
Though it may sometimes be hard to believe, most of the old-time hillbilly records of the 1920s and 1930s that we cherish as raw and unpolished were made with at least half an eye, and often more, cocked in the […]
Noted archivist John Cohen claims that Roscoe Holcomb is the man he had in mind when he coined the term “high lonesome.” But Holcomb has never been the subject of the same study or praise as similar practitioners such as […]
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