Lawrence Black Ardoin & Band - Why You Wanna Make Me CryĢ4. Napoleon Strickland & the Como Drum Corp - My BabeĢ3. Dellie Chandler Norton - Early, Early In the SpringĢ2. Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers - Give Me Just A Little More Timeġ6. Boyd & Ruth May Rivers - Somebody Touched Meġ4. Laethe Eller - Way Up In The Bright New Worldġ3. Vaughn Eller - Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Galġ2. Clyde Maxwell with Beatrice Maxwell, Lilian Simpson, and Fannie McCullough - You Got To Cross That River JordanĠ9.
Holly Springs Sacred Harp Singers - David's Lamentation (#248)Ġ8. Janette and Joe Carter - Will You Miss MeĠ4. Recorded live at the Old Church, Portland, Oregon, 1972ġ60 gram black vinyl LP in gold & black color reverse-board jacket. The recording itself is warm and mysterious, sounding like the room itself is alive with the spirit, while the rumbles of trucks and hints of city sounds peek through the walls from the outside streets. Once cited as Bob Dylan’s favorite singer, Roscoe Holcomb appears at the peak of his powers here, showcasing his immense vocal talents on an extended a cappella version of “The Village Churchyard”. Heard here are standout versions of Appalachian folk-blues classics such as Single Girl, John Henry, East Virginia Blues, Swanno Mountain and more. In contrast to Roscoe’s rarely documented (and at times restrained) live performances at folk festivals and television programs, Roscoe seems to have felt more familiar and spiritually moved in the old church that night. Incredibly, those tapes contained the sole surviving evidence of a strikingly intimate and raw performance by Roscoe Holcomb, whose cascading and haunting banjo, guitar and voice echoed and saturated the room and hushed audience. In 1972, the renowned and singular folk musician Roscoe Holcomb left his home in rural Daisy, Kentucky and embarked on a west coast tour with Mike Seeger, which included a performance at The Old Church in Portland, Oregon - a beautiful Carpenter Gothic church built in 1882.ĭecades later, two particular reels were discovered deep within a pile of 1/4” tape in a shadowy corner of the KBOO Community Radio archives in Portland.
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