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An untamed sense of control / Roscoe Holcomb.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 34104
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Holcomb, Roscoe.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banjo music.
- Guitar music.
- Songs, Unaccompanied.
- Songs with guitar.
- Guitar music (Blues).
- Harmonica music (Blues).
- Folk music--United States.
- Folk music.
- United States.
- Old-time music.
- Sound recordings in ethnomusicology.
- Songs with banjo.
- Local Subjects:
- Songs with banjo.
- Genre:
- Guitar music.
- Songs with guitar.
- Guitar music (Blues)
- Harmonica music (Blues)
- Folk music.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : black and white ; portraits)
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2003]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Swanno mountain (3:14)
- Across the rocky mountain (5:19)
- Graveyard blues (2:57)
- Single girl (2:58)
- Little Maggie (2:58)
- Born and raised in Covington (2:14)
- Barbara Allen blues (1:26)
- Coal Creek (1:28)
- Rock Island prison (1:31)
- I am a man of constant sorrow / Carter Stanley (2:56)
- Combs Hotel burned down (2:29)
- The hills of Mexico (2:29)
- Knife guitar (1:14)
- Mississippi heavy water blues / Robert Hicks (2:13)
- Coney Isle / Frank Hutchison (1:47)
- Train that carried my girl from town / Frank Hutchison (1:58)
- Milk cow blues / Kakamo Arnold (2:06)
- Black Eye Susie (1:11)
- Darling Cory (3:37)
- I ain't got no sugar baby now (2:47)
- Sitting on top of this world (2:39)
- Frankie and Johnnie (5:08)
- Foggy mountain top / A.P. Carter (1:48)
- Fair miss in the garden (3:49)
- Willow garden (3:23)
- True love (6:24).
- Participant:
- Roscoe Holcomb, voice, banjo, guitar, knife guitar, harmonica, and fiddle ; John Cohen, guitar (tracks 4 and 25).
- Credits:
- Produced and compiled by John Cohen.
- Notes:
- Compact disc.
- Performer biography and disc notes by John Cohen, and bibliography in container.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 20).
- Recorded, variously, in Cambridge, MA (1953, 1973), New York (1961, 1964), and on the performer's front porch in Daisy, KY (1972).
- OCLC:
- 52052483
- Publisher Number:
- 093074014424
- SFW CD 40144 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
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