Roscoe Holcomb
Roscoe Holcomb
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- Description
- Roscoe Holcomb (1911-1981) embodied the "high, lonesome sound" of traditional Appalachian songs. A banjo player and singer, he spent most of his life in the small town of Daisy, Kentucky, working for a living with no aspirations to become a star. Smithsonian folklorist John Cohen recorded Holcomb at home in 1959. That recording led to performances at bluegrass festivals and an international tour with the Stanley Brothers.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- photograph
- gelatin silver print
- negative
- 1972
- 2003
- maker
- Horenstein, Henry
- Place Made
- United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 10 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
- ID Number
- 2003.0169.028
- accession number
- 2003.0169
- catalog number
- 2003.0169.028
- Credit Line
- Horenstein, Henry
- subject
- Musicians
- Men
- Elderly
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Photography
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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