High Lonesome Sound Songwriter Round is a recurring songwriter round that features artists from SWFL High Lonesome Sound Songwriter Round is a recurring songwriter round that features artists from ...

Odds are you haven’t heard of Roscoe Holcomb. If you’re a fan of American music, though, his is most certainly a voice worth hearing. Holcomb was the “high lonesome” singer of eastern Kentucky, a man ...

Somewhere between traditional blues and country is bluegrass, the Southern string band music with its hallmarks of bluesy harmonies, rapid tempos, coupled with high-pitched vocal and instrumental ...

When Bill Monroe came up with bluegrass–“this high, lonesome sound,” as people called it at the time–banjo players used the clawhammer style. They flailed with their fingers and hands to play chords.

Back by popular demand: Bill Junior and the Montana Rangers, a dynamic, traditional band that features “high-lonesome” bluegrass singing, will give a concert at the Myrna Loy Center on Thursday, June ...

Stanley’s Grammy-winning work on the soundtrack to the Coen Brothers film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” sold an unexpected 6 million copies. Mainstream music fans have embraced Stanley and the ...

Last month, at the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) award show in Chattanooga, Appalachian Road Show took the ...

Remembering the High Lonesome is the story of the making of a classic documentary film. It is also a profile of filmmaker, photographer, artist, and musician John Cohen. Through interviews, as well as ...