That High Lonesome Sound
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Actor: Carter Family, Dillard Chandler, Roscoe HolcombEdition: VHS Tape
Format: Black & White, Color, Compilation, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 70 minutes
Release Date: 1997-02-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Shanachie
Studio: Shanachie
VHS Movie Reviews of That High Lonesome Sound
Movie Review: One out of three ain't.........too bad
Summary: 2 Stars
After I read the other glowing reviews on here I had to own this video. HOWEVER, after watching the three shorts on bluegrass and life in the '60s, I was disappointed, overall. The first video of Mr. Holcomb and the eastern KY country life painted what you would expect of Appalachian folks....poorly clothed, poorly educated, great banjo and guitar pickers. Being from KY, we are a little touchy on the stereotypical overall-clad, cigarette-smoking portrayal of our people. There were some high spots on the first short, though. The playing of Mr. Holcomb on his front porch is quite impressive, the views of the landscape are fetching, and they do, in fact, make you want to come home to these Ky mountains. The second short, on Dillard Chandler, was a disappointment. The portions that show his dwelling and his solo interpretations of the mountain music without any instrumentation are impressive, but when we follow him into town to get a bite to eat and pursue women.....a little off topic and disturbing. What did those scenes have to do with his music? The third short, on the two Carters, Maybelle and Sara, was quite good. We get a nice history on the Carters and get to hear the girls pick and sing three or four tunes. This one was well-done and rather delightful, if you are into the history and the nostalgia of where some of this music came from. Overall, I give it two stars, primarily on the weakness of the second short.
Summary of That High Lonesome Sound
Preserving a musical culture that has all but vanished from the hills of Appalachia, this compilation of films by musician-documentarian John Cohen offers a rich portrait of rural life in the early 1960s. Old practitioners of the "high lonesome" sound of bluegrass still retained the remote flavor of the region, so Cohen's films are now rare and cherished time capsules, beginning with "The High Lonesome Sound," an impressionistic portrait of Kentucky singer- guitarist Roscoe Holcomb and the hard-scrabble life that inspired his music. The second film, "The End of an Old Song," is a similarly moving portrait of balladeer Dillard Chandler, while "Sara and Maybelle" captures the reunion of two sisters from country music's pioneering Carter Family. Even though Cohen's verit? methods are crude (resulting in minimal use of synchronized sound), his techniques are well suited to his subjects, qualifying these films as musical anthropology that will enthrall any student of music or rural American history. --Jeff ShannonDocumentary VHS Video
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