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22 Aug 07 - 05:50 PM (#2131452) Subject: roscoe holcomb From: The Sandman I have been listening to him on you tube,absolutely brilliant. really cool guy,looks like his chewing gum while hes singing. |
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22 Aug 07 - 06:14 PM (#2131471) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: Bill D Roscoe was a real character and an important person in the old-time music. He got very caught up in the stories in the songs.....sometimes refusing to sing more because a ballad made him so sad.. |
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22 Aug 07 - 06:59 PM (#2131509) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: wilco There ara a number of video tapes and DVDs of Roscoe. Check with your local or your state library system. Homestaed tapes ahs a few of them for sale. |
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22 Aug 07 - 07:12 PM (#2131517) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: Bill D I actually saw Roscoe live at the Smithsonian Folk Festival in the mid 70s...I have a few slides of him playing and standing about. |
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22 Aug 07 - 07:36 PM (#2131529) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: Desert Dancer YouTube videos of Roscoe Holcomb (search results). ~ Becky in Tucson |
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22 Aug 07 - 07:49 PM (#2131538) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: GUEST,petr couple years ago Hank Bradley talked about him at fiddletunes in port townsend wa. and said Roscoe was the guy who came up with the term 'potatoes' for that bit of shuffle bowing just before starting an old time tune.. He said is there a name for that .. lets call it 'potatoes' Hank also wrote a great bluesy fiddle tune called Roscoe's Gone (as a tribute) its based on a raga scale. |
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22 Aug 07 - 10:22 PM (#2131641) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: GUEST,Art Thieme There are some nice photos of Roscoe in my folk scene photos collection that Bruce Kallick made room for at his site. I took them at the University Of Chicago Folk Festival in 1962 or 1963. Go to: http://rudegnu.com/art_thieme.html Art |
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23 Aug 07 - 04:31 AM (#2131764) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: The Sandman Bill d you wouldnt be kind enough to put them on you tube,Ihope Iam not being presumptious |
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23 Aug 07 - 04:50 AM (#2131772) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: Fred McCormick Absolutely wonderful singer, although definitely not for the faint hearted. The only solo CD I know of him is An Untamed Sense of Control. Smithsonian Folkways. SFW CD 40144. He also appears on Friends of Old Time Music: The Folk Arrival 1961 - 1965. Smithsonian Folkways SFW40160 2006. Roscoe made several LPs for Folkways, namely; The Music of Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward FA 2363 Close to Home FA 2374 The High Lonesome Sound FA 2368 The Untamed CD is drawn from these. I've never checked, but it's likely they wouldn't have got all the material from those LPs on. However, any surplus stuff can be downloaded from the Global Smithsonian site (http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/) for 99c a track. |
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23 Aug 07 - 04:55 AM (#2131775) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: Fred McCormick I've just checked the YouTube address, which isn't working very well at the moment. However, the first video listed is from Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest tv series c1960s. Stefan Grossman has compiled several videos of old time performers from this series, so the RH clip may be on one of those. |
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23 Aug 07 - 05:44 AM (#2131804) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: GUEST,Hootenanny I notice that in the above postings that no-one has acknowledged the important role of John Cohen in bringing Rosco to the attention of the outside world. It was John who first recorded and filmed Rosco and for that he deserves a huge round of applause. By the way, in describing Rosco you cannot seriously use the word 'cool'. The way 'cool' is used today is just another way of saying 'that's OK' or 'OK', Holcomb was raw and impassioned, never ever OK. Even when the term 'cool' was first commonly used among US musicians it would never have been used in decribing Rosco or his music. Hoot |
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23 Aug 07 - 06:55 AM (#2131834) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: The Sandman Ithink he is brilliant,I used the term cool, because he looks relaxed,unruffled,pacific,perhaps because he is chewing gum while he is singing[that must be difficult], I love his singing and playing. |
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23 Aug 07 - 10:45 AM (#2131973) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: Bill D umm..Captain....what I have are photographic slides....just still images. They are not scanned into any format for posting |
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23 Aug 07 - 12:07 PM (#2132047) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: GUEST,Russ The Real Thing. Russ (Permanent GUEST) |
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23 Aug 07 - 02:08 PM (#2132137) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: Fred McCormick It's just been pointed out to me that there's another Roscoe Holcomb CD on Folkways; The High Lonesome Sound. Smithsonian-Folkways CD SFCD 40104. In fact checking the Smithsonian Global site, on being advised of same, I find there's quite a number of discs which feature him. Looks like I've got some catching up to do. |
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23 Aug 07 - 03:02 PM (#2132169) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: RangerSteve Mr. Holcomb's performance on Pete Seeger's "Rainbow Quest" TV show is available on DVD. |
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23 Aug 07 - 03:40 PM (#2132200) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: Sean Belt Hearing Roscoe Holcomb for the first time was a huge infulence on me. I doubt that I'd be playing old-time music today if it wasn't for that experience. I brought one of his Folkways LPs home with me from the library when I was about 12 years old. When I put it on the turntable it completely changed how I thought about music. It was thrilling and beautiful and scarily intense all at the same time. I thought, "That's what I want to do when I grow up." I'm sure I'll never achieve the genius that Roscoe had, but I keep trying! Sean R-B |
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24 Aug 07 - 01:40 AM (#2132519) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: Anglo There are sound samples of him here at the Smithsonian Folkways page. (They don't work for me, but that's no reason they shouldn't work for you). Roscoe was also on a number of Alan Lomax's Southern Journey volumes, as I recall. I believe he was also the brother of Texas Gladden, a fine ballad singer, also recorded by Lomax. |
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24 Aug 07 - 02:36 AM (#2132527) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: GUEST,Linus Anglo is confusing Hobart Smith (brother of Texas Gladden) with Roscoe Holcomb. Smith & Gladden were recorded by Lomax & John Cohen recorded Roscoe Holcomb. |
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24 Aug 07 - 09:17 AM (#2132662) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: GUEST,fretless I heard RH live at the Brandywine festival in the mid 70s. Mike Seger was with him on stage and when Holcomb was done, Mike looked up and said "How does he DO that with his thumb?" Holcomb's musical ability was simply staggering. A note for note tab of his playing of Little Birdie or Old Smokey, for example, would be work of art. |
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24 Aug 07 - 02:26 PM (#2132889) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: Anglo Oops, thank you Linus. I am indeed confusing Hobart Smith with Roscoe Holcomb. Shame on me. My apologies for adding confusion. |
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24 Aug 07 - 07:35 PM (#2133042) Subject: RE: roscoe holcomb From: dick greenhaus And, of vourse, all the CDs featuring Roscoe Holcomb are available from CAMSCO Music. Of course. |