Roscoe Holcomb. Close to Home. Without attempting to slight any other Appalachian or old-time artist, many critics have decided the solo recordings of Roscoe Holcomb produced in the '60s by John Cohen represent some kind of pinnacle for this genre. Every quality that is important in this music is represented here in the fullest dimension, by a man who sings like a philosopher while keeping a rhythm going on several stringed instruments that would make a metronome envious. And then there's his voice. Album 1975 11 Songs. Close to Home Roscoe Holcomb. Close To Home. Released 1975. Close To Home Tracklist. Train That Carried My Girl From Town Lyrics. Milk Cow Blues Lyrics. About Close To Home. Close To Home Q&A. More Roscoe Holcomb albums. Listen free to Roscoe Holcomb Close to Home Motherless Children, Mississippi Heavy Water Blues and more. 11 tracks 41:09. Recorded in Holcomb's home in eastern Kentucky, this album portrays the music of a master musician whose identification with his songs is intense, innate, and above all, honest. It's not for nothing that John Cohen, the man who recorded Close to Home, coined the phrase the high lonesome sound to describe Holcomb's voice. LP 12 album, 33 rpm. Roscoe Holcomb Format: Vinyl. Please retry. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album. John Coltrane. 7 out of 5 stars 311. Close to Home, 1975. Now playing . Released: Jan Holcomb, born Roscoe Halcomb September 5, 1912 died February 1, 1981 was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky. A prominent figure in Appalachian folk music, Holcomb was the inspiration for the term high, lonesome sound, coined by folklorist and friend John Cohen. The high lonesome sound term is now used to describe bluegrass singing, although Holcomb was not, strictly speaking, a bluegrass performer
